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Killing Death: The Anti-Aging Method That Biohacked Mortality | InfoWars
Bear Smithsonian started Project Everlife in order to live forever. But is he playing God, which is a BAD thing, or IS he God, which is a GOOD thing?
Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update August 2026
Hello all!
Welcome to .zip's August Server update. Sorry I missed July's, it has been a busy couple of months.
Server updates
One important thing, and my least favourite to talk about, is donations. Hosting costs have shot up again following the further the ever-growing AI bubble stealing all the RAM, and so we're barely, if at all now, breaking even. There is more information in the donation section below, but if you truly value your online privacy and social media spaces free from corporate interests and advertising, please consider a small donation.
Also, The Button had it's 4th season! It lasted over 60 hours, the longest every season, and Red had an absolutely resounding win this time around! If you're interested in playing a silly web game with your fellow fediverse users, please keep an eye on the community: [email protected]
Finally, we have a new Admin joining the Team for Piefed.zip and Lemmy.zip - @[email protected] / @[email protected]. They'll be helping us to moderate the sites!
At the end of July, we saw a massive scraping attack (we assume) hitting Piefed.zip quite hard, enough to start timing the site out and effectively DDOS'ing the server. In order to combat this, we've been playing with the Cloudflare managed challenge. In the process of this, I did manage to temporarily break frontends, then mobile apps, but thankfully it's all in place now and appears to be working well. You'll see the jump in traffic in the graphs further down.
We also fixed a bug I had introduced in the Nginx config by putting my own CSR headers in. This was preventing embeds from Youtube etc from displaying. This is resolved now, but please do let us know if you do notice anything like this not working.
We applied the latest Lemmy updated, 0.19.19-jemalloc, which included a fix to memory allocation. Since this, we've seen a measured performance improvement and smaller use of RAM, which is really positive. (there is a version 0.19.20 but this is just 0.19.19-jemalloc so we've not bothered)
Please Don’t Be a Lurker!
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Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or just post the same meme of a disappointed cat over and over and over and over and over and over and over and so on.. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession. (We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)
The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.
So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:
Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.
Donations
As alluded to above, the price of the servers has once again increased. Boo.
This does mean we need to ask again that any amount, even a small amount, you can safely and comfortably spare, please consider donating to us.
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That's all for this month - hopefully next month's is on time!
Let me know if you have any questions in the comments :)
Thanks
Demigodrick
Emergency with Tim Heidecker Ep5 - R.I.P Horace | InfoWars
On the fifth installment of Emergency with Tim Heidecker, retired sheriff Dominick Banner briefly took over hosting duties before Tim returned to update viewers on the status of Horace and his divorce with Chesapeake. Caller Phil called in to discuss his experience with Super Malaria and senator Mitch McConnell called in to address the recent rumors. Finally, disgraced senatorial candidate Graham Platner announced his transition to a right-wing free speech guy and Tim hit the streets of Hollywood to grab himself a bite.
The Button: Season 4 Full Recap
The Button: Season 4 Full Recap
Before we jump in, I just want to say thank you to every single person who came along and played a very silly button clicking game.
Special thanks to @[email protected] for helping me with early testing too!
If there's any other stats you want to see, please let me know in the comments!
- Theme: Fishing / The Harbour
- Button went live: 24 July 2026, 19:00 UTC
- Season ended: 27 July 2026, 07:42:09 UTC
- Button-game length: 60 hours, 42 minutes
- Registered players: 158 across 42 instances
- Winner: 🦀 Crab Crew (Red) with 49.7% of all timer control
How Season 4 actually ended
Not on a quiet timer. Season 4 was killed on purpose, in 81 seconds.
At 07:40:47 a Leviathan slipped back into the deep, the fourth escape in a row, and battered the button for another 100 health. That was the last of it. One second later the fifth Corrupted Heart of the season fired: two hours on the doom clock, a cleansing price of 600 health worth of fish, and the rule everyone had learned the hard way, that every press of the button steals 30 seconds off the clock and drags the port closer to the end.
Seven players took that as an invitation.
Between 07:40:48 and 07:42:10, they threw 242 presses into the dark. 241 of them were banked bonus presses, hoarded over days of faction press drops and monster kills and finally spent all at once. Two hours of doom clock burned away in a minute and twenty-one seconds.
| Player | Faction | Presses in the last 81 seconds |
|---|---|---|
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 133 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 33 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 27 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 23 |
| @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 22 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 3 |
| @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 1 |
suborange, mid-execution, in #main: "All of the sudden I decided to go vegan." And then: "No more fishing for me!"
The last press belonged to @[email protected]. The clock hit zero at 07:42:10.
Faction standings
Control is measured by how long each crew held the timer - Red pressed the most and held the most.
| Rank | Crew | Control | Time held | Presses | Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 🦀 Crab Crew (Red) | 49.7% | 30h 10m | 4,409 | 34 |
| 🥈 | 🦑 Squid Squad (Blue) | 17.4% | 10h 34m | 1,556 | 39 |
| 🥉 | 🐟 Guppy Gang (Green) | 17.2% | 10h 26m | 2,062 | 30 |
| 4th | 🐡 Puffer Pals (Purple) | 15.7% | 9h 32m | 722 | 35 |
Presses per active presser: Red 147.0, Green 85.9, Blue 48.6, Purple 24.9.
Blue had the biggest roster and the second-most control with the third-fewest presses per head, which is the most efficient conversion of the season. Red simply out-pressed everyone by a factor of three.
Unspent presses at the buzzer, by crew: Red 4,957, Green 2,632, Blue 1,695, Purple 1,461. Across the whole port, 12,589 banked bonus presses were still sitting unused when the season ended, spread across 157 players. Red's stockpile alone could have held the timer for another ten hours.
Crew contributions elsewhere
| Crew | Catches | Weight | Legendaries | Harpoon strikes | Damage dealt | Tide healed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crab Crew | 25,937 | 135.9 t | 3,595 | 27,915 | 2,006,874 | 5,526 |
| Guppy Gang | 17,819 | 106.0 t | 2,611 | 17,893 | 1,335,043 | 4,114 |
| Puffer Pals | 16,987 | 97.4 t | 2,369 | 15,650 | 916,540 | 2,767 |
| Squid Squad | 12,411 | 63.0 t | 976 | 13,624 | 757,700 | 2,849 |
Red won the Tide as well: the most button health restored of any crew.
The Button
Top 15 pressers
| # | Player | Crew | Presses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 419 |
| 2 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 379 |
| 3 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 354 |
| 4 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 317 |
| 5 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 316 |
| 6 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 310 |
| 7 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 286 |
| 8 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 277 |
| 9 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 253 |
| 10 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 249 |
| 11 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 235 |
| 12 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 218 |
| 13 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 210 |
| 14 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 194 |
| 15 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 187 |
Button records
- First press of the season: @[email protected], at 19:00:06 on 24 July. Six seconds after the button went live.
- Fastest reaction: @[email protected], 5 milliseconds after a reset.
- Closest save: @[email protected] at 06:49:43 on 27 July, with 1.095 seconds left on the clock. Runner-up: @[email protected] with 1.692 seconds, and again with 3.381 seconds. @[email protected] pulled two saves under 2.4 seconds inside 41 minutes on the 26th.
- Last press: @[email protected], timer at zero.
- Median press: with 886.9 seconds still on the clock, meaning the typical press was a comfortable one and the drama lived in the tails.
When the port pressed
Busiest hours (UTC): 21:00 (946 presses), 20:00 (844), 19:00 (780). Quietest: 09:00 (74). European evening was prime time, and the 04:00 and 06:00 spikes are the overnight rescue crew keeping the lights on.
Fishing
73,154 catches. 402.3 tonnes of fish. 115 anglers.
| Rarity | Catches | Share | Total weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rare | 23,259 | 31.8% | 96.4 t |
| Uncommon | 21,454 | 29.3% | 22.1 t |
| Junk | 14,580 | 19.9% | 21.9 t |
| Legendary | 9,551 | 13.1% | 260.8 t |
| Common | 4,310 | 5.9% | 1.1 t |
70,905 fish were sold. 2,249 were still in someone's bucket at the end.
Top 15 anglers
| # | Player | Crew | Catches | Weight | Legendaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 3,900 | 29.5 t | 778 |
| 2 | @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 3,346 | 18.2 t | 639 |
| 3 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 3,194 | 23.0 t | 681 |
| 4 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 3,065 | 17.4 t | 530 |
| 5 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,766 | 14.3 t | 560 |
| 6 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,178 | 12.0 t | 328 |
| 7 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 2,149 | 10.7 t | 328 |
| 8 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,096 | 12.0 t | 478 |
| 9 | @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 2,088 | 14.6 t | 232 |
| 10 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 2,051 | 14.0 t | 322 |
| 11 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 1,960 | 15.3 t | 396 |
| 12 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 1,944 | 8.4 t | 224 |
| 13 | @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 1,806 | 8.6 t | 308 |
| 14 | @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 1,756 | 8.8 t | 79 |
| 15 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 1,635 | 10.4 t | 299 |
The big one
🦣 The Behemoth, 272.398 kg, landed by @[email protected] at 06:55 on the final morning. It stood as the season record for 47 minutes before the world ended.
The top ten heaviest catches of the season were all Behemoths, running from 272.4 kg down to 249.3 kg. alfredolin and terrance both appear twice.
Species records
Every species record holder, by weight:
| Species | Rarity | Record weight | Holder |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🦣 The Behemoth | Legendary | 272.40 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐳 The Whale | Legendary | 169.47 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🧜 Wasteland Mermaid | Legendary | 66.24 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐊 Vault Croc | Legendary | 60.30 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🚢 Ghost Galleon | Legendary | 32.01 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐬 Phantom Dolphin | Rare | 23.82 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🦈 Rad-Shark | Rare | 19.28 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🦭 Rust Seal | Rare | 16.84 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐙 Kraken Hatchling | Legendary | 14.89 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐢 Wasteland Turtle | Rare | 12.14 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐟 Trench Anglerfish | Legendary | 10.95 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🦦 Atomic Otter | Rare | 10.21 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐟 Irradiated Ray | Rare | 9.48 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐦⬛ The Corvid | Legendary | 9.00 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐙 Sewer Octopus | Rare | 8.40 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🦑 Glowing Squid | Rare | 6.20 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐟 Beacon Tuna | Rare | 5.99 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🦞 Junk Lobster | Uncommon | 3.86 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🪸 Moonshade Manta | Rare | 3.46 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐠 Bog Carp | Uncommon | 3.08 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐟 Sewer Salmon | Uncommon | 2.74 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🦀 Storm Crab | Rare | 2.74 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐠 Sunfin | Uncommon | 2.32 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐍 Mutant Eel | Uncommon | 2.01 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐍 Lighthouse Eel | Uncommon | 1.99 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐡 Reef Pirate | Rare | 1.97 kg | @[email protected] |
| 🐠 Driftwood Pike | Uncommon | 1.74 kg | @[email protected] |
The Dex
@[email protected] was the first player in the harbour's history to complete the Fishing Dex, at 04:09 on 25 July, roughly nine hours into the button game. 34 players eventually filled all 40 species. Another 9 finished on 39, one species short.
The rarest thing in the game was not a fish. It was patience.
Gold and the shop
476,701 gold passed through the shop. 79,591 gold was still in pockets at the end.
| Item | Purchases | Gold spent | Buyers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harpoon upgrade | 697 | 281,154 | 85 |
| Council tithe | 1,285 | 71,945 | 52 |
| Faction press drop | 548 | 61,565 | 53 |
| Spinach | 439 | 17,648 | 61 |
| Quick reel | 278 | 15,306 | 48 |
| Bountiful tide | 162 | 10,942 | 41 |
| Summon sea monster | 40 | 11,740 | 17 |
| Banner message | 143 | 4,567 | 23 |
| Reveal next monster | 41 | 1,134 | 24 |
| Celebration | 141 | 700 | 36 |
The single most expensive purchase of the season was a harpoon upgrade at 3,200 gold.
Faction press drops by crew: Red 269, Green 141, Blue 77, Purple 61. This is the direct explanation for Red's press dominance and for the 12,589 presses left unspent: Red bought so many drops that its quiet members ended the season sitting on 245 presses each without ever clicking anything.
Richest at the buzzer
| # | Player | Crew | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 12,063 |
| 2 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 10,029 |
| 3 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 6,344 |
| 4 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 4,422 |
| 5 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 4,274 |
| 6 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 2,845 |
| 7 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,299 |
| 8 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,268 |
| 9 | @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 1,613 |
| 10 | @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 1,594 |
Biggest spenders
macallan (26,347), yetanotheruser (25,320), almost1337 (23,339), alfredolin (22,857), sebas (22,313), deebster (19,499), tikiporch (19,027), w3dd1e (18,892).
Highest harpoon level reached: 20, by @[email protected] and @[email protected]. 65 players never upgraded past level 1.
Sea monsters
63 encounters. 29 slain. 33 escaped. 1 bought off. 75,082 harpoon strikes. 5,016,157 total damage.
Most damage dealt
| # | Player | Crew | Strikes | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 5,758 | 637,448 |
| 2 | @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 4,087 | 437,260 |
| 3 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 3,395 | 304,841 |
| 4 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 2,992 | 268,625 |
| 5 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,551 | 260,473 |
| 6 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 2,585 | 242,821 |
| 7 | @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 2,137 | 239,377 |
| 8 | @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 3,025 | 225,807 |
| 9 | @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 3,684 | 207,621 |
| 10 | @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 2,529 | 171,519 |
Killing blows
Four players tied on 3 kills each: @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected]. alfredolin and pokeman took 2 apiece. Thirteen more players landed one.
Hardest kill: the Avenging Armada, 3,000,000 HP, finished by @[email protected]. Biggest single strike: 165 damage by @[email protected]. Critical strikes: only 32 in the entire season, for 1,958 damage. Crits unlocked with the Grand Bazaar's second milestone, and every last one of them landed between 07:30:52 and 07:40:24 on the final morning, on a Leviathan that escaped anyway, four minutes before the world ended.
Monster HP scaled with the kill streak, and the port's success ate it alive. The first megalodon of the game had 700 HP. The last had 96,159. By the 26th the harbour was losing more monsters than it landed, and each escape smashed the button's health, which is exactly how the Corrupted Heart kept coming back.
The Blockade trilogy
Part 1: The Pirate Flagship (25 July, 19:51 UTC)
1,000,000 HP, and a ransom option at 20,000 gold. The port took one look at the hull and reached for its wallet.
The Town Council emptied its coffers eight times over, 2,500 gold a motion, and the bay reopened at 20:25, thirty-four minutes after the sails appeared. Total paid: 20,870 gold, of which 20,000 came from the council war chest and 870 from individual pockets. @[email protected] gave the most and drove the whole operation.
Part 2: The Flagship Returns (26 July, 11:35 UTC)
"The captain counted your last ransom and liked the weight of it." Same 1,000,000 HP, ransom raised to 50,000 gold. Not one coin was paid.
The council went to war instead: powder kegs for 5,000 instant damage, boarding parties dropping harpoon cooldown to one second, grapeshot for +50% damage, privateer's bounty paying 2 gold a strike. 40 minutes and 43 seconds later the flagship was on the seabed. @[email protected] struck the killing blow. 27 hunters split the pot.
Part 3: The Avenging Armada (26 July, 21:43 UTC)
"You killed their captain, and the whole fleet has come to collect."
3,000,000 HP. A four-hour clock. A ransom priced at 200,000 gold, which was never a real offer. And a new mechanic: every minute the armada lived, it stole presses from the port's biggest hoarders. Failure meant losing every bonus press, every coin of gold and every scrap in the harbour.
The port paid 570 gold in gestures at a 200,000 gold ransom, laughed, and then killed it in 1 hour 43 minutes, well inside the clock. @[email protected] landed the final harpoon. The armada dragged 515 presses to the bottom with it on the way down.
The Corrupted Heart
Five times the button's health hit zero. Five times the heart turned black and started a two-hour countdown, with every press stealing another 30 seconds and only fish able to break the curse. The price went up each time.
| # | Corrupted at (UTC) | Cleanse price | Cleansed at | Time taken |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 July 10:38:58 | 200 health | 10:41:12 | 2m 14s |
| 2 | 26 July 16:40:33 | 300 health | 16:41:34 | 1m 01s |
| 3 | 26 July 18:40:42 | 400 health | 18:42:09 | 1m 27s |
| 4 | 26 July 20:05:35 | 500 health | 20:08:51 | 3m 16s |
| 5 | 27 July 07:40:48 | 600 health |
The second cleanse is the single most impressive thing the port did all season: 300 health worth of fish poured into the dark in sixty-one seconds. Across the season the harbour healed 211 hearts' worth of corruption.
The button's health chart tells the story of the last two days: comfortable in the 180s and 190s on the 24th, sagging through the 25th, and from the 26th onward a sawtooth between 0 and 80 as the monsters escaped faster than the fish could come in.
Peak concurrent players: 45, hit twice: on the afternoon of 25 July and again on the evening of the 26th.
Mega-projects
Three harbour-wide builds, all three completed, each one faster than the last.
| Project | Goal | Donors | Started | Completed | Build time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🗼 The Grand Lighthouse | 150,000 | 43 | 26 Jul 07:22 | 26 Jul 16:06 | 8h 44m |
| ⚓ The Deepwater Drydock | 200,000 | 38 | 26 Jul 17:34 | 27 Jul 02:41 | 9h 07m |
| 🏺 The Grand Bazaar | 400,000 | 8 | 27 Jul 05:54 | 27 Jul 06:44 | 49 minutes |
The Lighthouse and Drydock were community efforts: 43 and 38 donors, 89,123 gold and 26,092 scrap between them.
The Grand Bazaar was something else entirely. Eight donors. Two of them, @[email protected] (198 presses) and @[email protected] (150 presses), dumped 348 banked presses into it for 348,000 of the 400,000 points needed. A project designed to take a day was finished before breakfast.
Top donors
Lighthouse: yetanotheruser (13,940), tarball (13,437), alfredolin (12,736), sebas (12,535), bobtimus_prime (7,600), deebster (7,600), lnxtx (7,170), dunstabzugshaubitze (5,948).
Drydock: yetanotheruser (30,000), svc (20,470), macallan (19,649), sebas (16,540), rajtinka (16,477), cooperredarmydog (15,121), alfredolin (9,705), m_f (9,123).
Bazaar: simpliston (198,399), patrickyaa (152,362), fleece (16,477), bobtimus_prime (12,854), freeman (9,525), svc (6,650), demigodrick (2,813), deebster (1,000).
@[email protected] topped both of the projects that were open to everyone. The season's most consistent public servant.
The Town Council
21 terms. 94 seats filled. 461 motions. 407 passed. An 88% pass rate, which is either admirable consensus or a rubber stamp, depending on which crew you asked.
Most seats served
| Player | Crew | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 10 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 4 |
| @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 4 |
| @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 4 |
| @[email protected] | Squid Squad | 4 |
| @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 4 |
sebas held a seat for ten of the season's twenty-one councils, and nobody else broke five.
Most motions proposed
| Player | Motions | Passed |
|---|---|---|
| @[email protected] | 105 | 96 |
| @[email protected] | 60 | 59 |
| @[email protected] | 53 | 49 |
| @[email protected] | 44 | 39 |
| @[email protected] | 24 | 24 |
| @[email protected] | 24 | 23 |
almost1337 went 24 for 24. Not a single failed motion all season.
Most-used powers
High Tide passed 167 times (and failed 15). Brown Envelope 87. Fishmonger's Sale 48. Lucky Tides 34. Scrap Rain 17. The war powers only came out when pirates were in the bay: Boarding Party 14, Grapeshot 14, War Chest 8, Privateer's Bounty 6, Powder Kegs 2.
14,515 faction points were spent on passed motions. 1,285 council tithes were paid, at a cost of 71,945 gold.
Voyages and the Galleon
1,537 voyages launched. 34,743 fish landed at sea. 131,026 gold hauled home. 33 ships were still out on the water when the season ended, and they are still out there.
| Tier | Voyages | Gold |
|---|---|---|
| Coastal | 624 | 30,784 |
| Open Sea | 484 | 44,828 |
| Deep Trench | 429 | 55,414 |
Voyage-only species dominated the catch log. The Beacon Tuna (4,491), Pearl Diver (4,462) and Lighthouse Eel (3,686) were the three most-caught fish of the entire season, and none of them can be caught from the dock.
1,551 voyage events fired at sea. 1,374 were answered by a captain; 177 were left to resolve themselves while nobody was looking. The port's instinct, when the sea offered a choice, was overwhelmingly to take the cautious option. The two exceptions were Kraken Shallows (83 chose to sneak past versus 46 who fought) and Rogue Wave (68 chose to ride it out versus 35 who turned into it).
Shipwrights
68 players built a full boat in the workshop. 25 went further and assembled all five Masterwork Parts found at sea to earn the ⚓ Master Ship Builder badge.
First five to launch a Masterwork Galleon:
- @[email protected], 25 July 06:54
- @[email protected], 25 July 14:54
- @[email protected], 25 July 17:18
- @[email protected], 25 July 17:34
- @[email protected], 25 July 18:25
Only 179 Masterwork Parts were ever pulled out of the sea, across 1,537 voyages.
Most voyages: deebster (79), sebas (77), yetanotheruser (71), alfredolin (64), macallan (51).
The Bounty Board
238 bounties taken, 197 completed, 54,980 gold paid out. An 83% completion rate.
| Player | Taken | Completed | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| @[email protected] | 15 | 14 | 3,960 |
| @[email protected] | 12 | 12 | 3,690 |
| @[email protected] | 13 | 12 | 3,780 |
| @[email protected] | 11 | 11 | 3,600 |
| @[email protected] | 13 | 10 | 2,750 |
| @[email protected] | 13 | 10 | 2,540 |
| @[email protected] | 10 | 10 | 3,180 |
The board's most-taken contract was Sell Gold (68 picks). The best-paying was Monster Damage: 35 picks, 14,080 gold. Every single Rares, Legendaries and RPS Wins bounty taken was completed.
The Atlas Chain
The season's twelve-step puzzle, running from a morse-code message to a moral choice at a lighthouse.
20 players finished it. 54 more started and stopped at step 1.
@[email protected] won the Lantern's Hour, relighting the Forgotten Tide beacon at 22:17:02 on 24 July, three hours and seventeen minutes after the season began.
First three finishers, all within six minutes of each other:
- @[email protected], 22:19:16
- @[email protected], 22:21:00
- @[email protected], 22:25:37
The final choice
At the end, each solver chose whether to keep the lantern or relight the beacon for whoever came next.
Keep it: 12. alfredolin, almost1337, egrets, gerudo, lnxtx, m_f, owenfromcanada, rumba, simpliston, terrance, treasure, yetanotheruser.
Relight it: 8. bevsdad, deebster, dunstabzugshaubitze, freeman, patrickyaa, pokeman, snoopy, w3dd1e.
The first player to finish the chain gave the light away. Make of that what you will.
Chat and the social side
8,613 messages from players, across 12 channels. The harbour feed carried another 17,000 system shouts on top.
Most talkative
| Player | Crew | Messages |
|---|---|---|
| @[email protected] | Puffer Pals | 845 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 634 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 551 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 455 |
| @[email protected] | Guppy Gang | 435 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 394 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 377 |
| @[email protected] | Crab Crew | 375 |
Most-used reaction
🐦⬛ with 844 uses, beating 🎉 (816) and 👍 (452). The Corvid got more love than actual celebration did.
Season 4: Rock Paper Scissors
221 games. 636 rounds. 38 players with at least one win. First game 24 July 13:28 UTC, last 27 July 06:42 UTC.
Only the deciding round of each game is recorded, so the 442 throws below come from the 221 decisive rounds. The other 415 rounds were draws, and drawn hands leave no trace.
Which hand actually won
| Hand | Thrown | Won | Lost | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✋ Paper | 151 (34.2%) | 80 | 71 | 53.0% |
| ✌️ Scissors | 141 (31.9%) | 71 | 70 | 50.4% |
| ✊ Rock | 150 (33.9%) | 70 | 80 | 46.7% |
The three hands were thrown almost exactly equally, and it still was not a fair fight. Rock lost more games than it won. Paper picked up the difference. The oldest advice in the game turns out to be correct: people reach for rock, so throw paper.
Player records
Everyone with five or more games.
| Player | W | L | Win % | Favourite hand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dunstabzugshaubitze | 23 | 15 | 61% | rock (21 of 38) |
| yetanotheruser | 21 | 9 | 70% | paper (13 of 30) |
| demigodrick | 17 | 16 | 52% | paper (14 of 33) |
| deebster | 16 | 8 | 67% | scissors (14 of 24) |
| its_prolly_fine | 11 | 13 | 46% | scissors (16 of 24) |
| sebas | 10 | 6 | 62% | paper (14 of 16) |
| patrickyaa | 9 | 2 | 82% | paper (6 of 11) |
| tikiporch | 9 | 4 | 69% | scissors (11 of 13) |
| skankhunt42 | 9 | 9 | 50% | rock (17 of 18) |
| m_f | 9 | 17 | 35% | scissors (10 of 26) |
| dmmacniel | 7 | 8 | 47% | rock (7 of 15) |
| zedstrian | 6 | 3 | 67% | rock (4 of 9) |
| freeman | 6 | 5 | 55% | rock (6 of 11) |
| pika | 5 | 2 | 71% | paper (4 of 7) |
| almost1337 | 5 | 3 | 62% | paper (6 of 8) |
| cooperredarmydog | 5 | 5 | 50% | paper (8 of 10) |
| livligkinkajou | 5 | 9 | 36% | rock (7 of 14) |
| simpliston | 4 | 1 | 80% | rock (2 of 5) |
| baschi29 | 4 | 8 | 33% | rock (12 of 12) |
| egrets | 3 | 4 | 43% | rock (3 of 7) |
| bevsdad | 3 | 4 | 43% | scissors (7 of 7) |
| comradepupivy | 3 | 5 | 38% | rock (4 of 8) |
| bobtimus_prime | 3 | 5 | 38% | rock (5 of 8) |
| rajtinka | 3 | 5 | 38% | paper (4 of 8) |
| w3dd1e | 3 | 10 | 23% | rock (6 of 13) |
| mschae | 2 | 3 | 40% | scissors (3 of 5) |
| alfredolin | 2 | 5 | 29% | scissors (3 of 7) |
| lnxtx | 2 | 5 | 29% | paper (6 of 7) |
| treasure | 2 | 6 | 25% | rock (4 of 8) |
| snoopy | 0 | 9 | 0% | paper (5 of 9) |
snoopy went nine games without a single win, the only completely blank record of the season. They favoured paper, the best hand in the game, and it never once landed.
Best record with real volume: yetanotheruser, 21-9 at 70%. Best record overall: patrickyaa, 9-2 at 82%.
The Standoff
yetanotheruser vs its_prolly_fine, 26 July at 02:49 UTC: 255 consecutive draws.
Two hundred and fifty six rounds. Two players throwing the same hand, over and over, neither willing to be the one who changed. It ended when scissors finally cut paper.
The next longest standoff of the entire season was 29 draws.
| Draws | Games |
|---|---|
| 0 | 152 |
| 1 | 44 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 17 | 1 |
| 29 | 1 |
| 255 | 1 |
The predictable
Two players never varied. Not once.
| Player | Every single throw | Record |
|---|---|---|
| baschi29 | ✊ rock, 12 of 12 | 4-8 |
| bevsdad | ✌️ scissors, 7 of 7 | 3-4 |
And the nearly as readable:
| Player | Tell | Record |
|---|---|---|
| skankhunt42 | rock 17 of 18 (94%) | 9-9 |
| sebas | paper 14 of 16 (88%) | 10-6 |
| tikiporch | scissors 11 of 13 (85%) | 9-4 |
| cooperredarmydog | paper 8 of 10 (80%) | 5-5 |
sebas is the exception that proves the rule. Being 88% predictable did not matter, because the hand he kept throwing was the one that beats all the rock-throwers. He finished 10-6.
Rivalries
| Matchup | Games | Score |
|---|---|---|
| treasure vs yetanotheruser | 8 | 2-6 |
| demigodrick vs dunstabzugshaubitze | 6 | 3-3 |
| dmmacniel vs dunstabzugshaubitze | 6 | 2-4 |
| demigodrick vs m_f | 5 | 3-2 |
| its_prolly_fine vs skankhunt42 | 5 | 3-2 |
| deebster vs snoopy | 4 | 4-0 |
Busiest players
| Player | Games |
|---|---|
| dunstabzugshaubitze | 38 |
| demigodrick | 33 |
| yetanotheruser | 30 |
| m_f | 26 |
| its_prolly_fine | 24 |
| deebster | 24 |
| skankhunt42 | 18 |
| sebas | 16 |
Banner buyers
143 harbour banners were bought. @[email protected] alone paid for 35 of them, a quarter of everything that scrolled across the top of the screen all season.
Recruiters
@[email protected] brought 6 new players to the port, the most of anyone. dunstabzugshaubitze, snoopy and freeman brought 3 each. 23 players joined through a referral link.
Achievements - The full list
| Symbol | Name | How you earn it |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | First Presser | Make press number 1 of the season |
| 🏁 | Latest Presser | Hold the most recent press |
| 🛡️ | Last-Second Save | Press with under 10 seconds left |
| ⚡ | Fastest Reaction | Beat the season's fastest reaction |
| 🏮 | Lantern's Hour | Win the Atlas Chain lantern race |
| 🕯️ | Lantern Keeper | Finish the Atlas Chain and keep the lantern |
| 🎣 | Dex Complete | Be first to catch all 40 species |
| ⚓ | Master Ship Builder | Assemble all 5 Masterwork Parts |
| 🏛️ | Council Member | Take a seat on the Town Council |
Only 🏁 and ⚡ move between players. Everything else, once earned, is yours.
Who holds what after Season 4
Solo honours
| Badge | Holder | For |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 First Presser | [email protected] | Pressed 6 seconds after the button went live |
| 🏁 Latest Presser | [email protected] | Made the press that ended the season |
| 🎣 Dex Complete | [email protected] | First to complete the Dex, 25 July 04:09 |
| 🏮 Lantern's Hour | [email protected] | Relit the Forgotten Tide beacon, 24 July 22:17 |
🛡️ Last-Second Save (7)
| Player |
|---|
| [email protected] |
| [email protected] |
| [email protected] |
| [email protected] |
| [email protected] |
| [email protected] |
| [email protected] |
🕯️ Lantern Keeper (12)
⚓ Master Ship Builder (25)
Most decorated
| Player | Badges | Count |
|---|---|---|
| [email protected] | 🏮 🕯️ ⚓ | 3 |
| [email protected] | 🕯️ ⚓ 🛡️ | 3 |
| [email protected] | 🕯️ ⚓ | 2 |
| [email protected] | ⚓ 🛡️ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🕯️ ⚓ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🕯️ ⚓ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🛡️ 🏁 | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🥇 ⚓ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🕯️ 🛡️ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🎣 ⚓ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🛡️ ⚓ | 2 |
| [email protected] | 🕯️ ⚓ | 2 |
alfredolin and terrance finished the season with three each. alfredolin is the only player to hold 🏮, which cannot be shared.
Odds, ends and honourable mentions
- @[email protected] finished the Dex first, built the first Masterwork Galleon, and tied for the most monster kills. A quietly outrageous season.
- @[email protected] finished top of catches, top of legendaries, top of chat, top of council motions, top donor on two of three mega-projects, second in RPS and second in total damage, and finished fourth in the faction standings for their trouble.
- @[email protected] ended the season richest at 12,063 gold. Then spent his last minute on Earth throwing 23 presses into the doom clock.
- 73,154 fish, and the largest was a 154 kg Behemoth caught by terrance at 07:38 on the last morning, during the two-minute window where nothing could save anyone.
- 12,589 banked presses went to the grave unspent. Half of them were Red's.
See you in Season 5. 🎣
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The Button Season 4 starts in 4 days!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68248986
The Button is back for Season 4!
You can sign up now at thebutton.social to earn a few bonuses before the new season begins.
What is The Button?
At first glance, it's simple: there's just one button.
Pressing it is easy.
Knowing when to press it? That's where things get interesting.
Every season introduces a new theme, new mechanics, and new ways for the community to influence the game. Whether you're racing to the top of the leaderboard, collecting achievements, or trying to outsmart everyone else... every press matters.
Season 4 brings a brand new theme, fresh content, and plenty of surprises that will be revealed once the game goes live. If you've played before, you'll find new mechanics to explore. If you're new, there's never been a better time to jump in.
Sign up today to claim your pre-season bonuses and be ready when the button returns!
PS - you can even claim your referral code before the game goes live. Share this around and anyone that signs up with it will earn you a bonus button press too!
Why?
I like weird internet games ok?!
I love the community built up on the fediverse (after all I do host an instance!) and wanted to give back with community games to bring people together :)
The Button Season 4 starts in 4 days!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68248912
The Button is back for Season 4!
You can sign up now at thebutton.social to earn a few bonuses before the new season begins.
What is The Button?
At first glance, it's simple: there's just one button.
Pressing it is easy.
Knowing when to press it? That's where things get interesting.
Every season introduces a new theme, new mechanics, and new ways for the community to influence the game. Whether you're racing to the top of the leaderboard, collecting achievements, or trying to outsmart everyone else... every press matters.
Season 4 brings a brand new theme, fresh content, and plenty of surprises that will be revealed once the game goes live. If you've played before, you'll find new mechanics to explore. If you're new, there's never been a better time to jump in.
Sign up today to claim your pre-season bonuses and be ready when the button returns!
PS - you can even claim your referral code before the game goes live. Share this around and anyone that signs up with it will earn you a bonus button press too!
Why?
I like weird internet games ok?!
I love the community built up on the fediverse (after all I do host an instance!) and wanted to give back with community games to bring people together :)
The Button Season 4 starts in 4 days!
The Button is back for Season 4!
You can sign up now at thebutton.social to earn a few bonuses before the new season begins.
What is The Button?
At first glance, it's simple: there's just one button.
Pressing it is easy.
Knowing when to press it? That's where things get interesting.
Every season introduces a new theme, new mechanics, and new ways for the community to influence the game. Whether you're racing to the top of the leaderboard, collecting achievements, or trying to outsmart everyone else... every press matters.
Season 4 brings a brand new theme, fresh content, and plenty of surprises that will be revealed once the game goes live. If you've played before, you'll find new mechanics to explore. If you're new, there's never been a better time to jump in.
Sign up today to claim your pre-season bonuses and be ready when the button returns!
PS - you can even claim your referral code before the game goes live. Share this around and anyone that signs up with it will earn you a bonus button press too!
Why?
I like weird internet games ok?!
I love the community built up on the fediverse (after all I do host an instance!) and wanted to give back with community games to bring people together :)
The Button Season 4: General Chat thread
In case anyone wants to talk about The Button or Season 4 outside of the game. Plus, will take any new ideas here too please :)