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Arianna Story

Software Engineer, NC State University

Recreating DougDoug’s “Endless Debate” AI
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A screenshot of a video uploaded by DougDoug, featuring a bingo board and three characters talking.
A screenshot of a video uploaded by DougDoug, featuring a bingo board and three characters talking.

A few days ago, a Twitch streamer that I’ve been following for a bit, DougDoug, uploaded a new video to his channel called “I locked Ai into an endless debate.” Doug’s known for content where he combines programming with gameplay for some fun (and chaotic) streams. It can range from using vision to convert President […]

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The Stopwatch Game (External link opens in a new tab)
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I have a really vivid memory of being stuck in my house after a hurricane, low on batteries for my Game Boy Color (having spent far too long in Pokèmon Gold), and needing something to entertain myself.

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The Token Deck Post
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A screenshot of various Magic: the Gathering tokens laid out on a PDF.
A screenshot of various Magic: the Gathering tokens laid out on a PDF.

Or, how late-night card organization led to staying up coding for the rest of the night (again).

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the best game I’ve ever played.
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A graphic of the cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, facing away from the camera with their weapons drawn.
A photo of the cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, facing away from the camera with their weapons drawn.
Graphic by Sandfall Interactive.

Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 is the greatest video game that I’ve ever played, and it is one of the most powerful stories I have ever experienced across any medium.

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Check out my Things! (External link opens in a new tab)
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I have a collection of half-finished ideas that I work on in my spare time over at https://things.ari.codes/. They’re all in various states of completion, design, and novelty, but they’re open for you to take a look at! They run the gambit from recreations of games to actually useful utilities.

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I made a break timer!
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Recently, I was part of the organizing committee for UNC CAUSE, a professional conference for IT folks working within the University of North Carolina System. As part of that (and a need to pursue random ideas that I have at 1 AM), I wrote a small timer app that ended up getting some positive feedback, so I figured I’d share it here!

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Doing Stuff With Election Data in NC
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I thought it might be interesting to look at which races were the closest in this election. So, instead of refreshing the State Board of Elections’ website every five minutes, I decided to tackle an election-night coding project to take the edge off.

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