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| 09:25 | <&Reiver> | Hexcells Plus: Fuck you, Question Mark |
| 09:26 | <&Reiver> | Oh, I get the idea. The tactic to avoid giving away too much info. |
| 09:26 | <&Reiver> | But half the gratification of clearing a hex is to be able to see the pattern form, so you can continue to puzzle the puzzle |
| 09:27 | <&Reiver> | A question mark robs you of this flow; you're a booby prize that takes the joy of clearing and makes it even less helpful than confirming a blue |
| 09:27 | <&Reiver> | And then you make /entire fucking walls/ of them |
| 09:28 | <&Reiver> | So now I'm back to playing Shitty Sudoku (And I know you're better than this, you had an entire level where you used almost nothing /but/ Sudoku Tactics to tease out which solitary hexes where what, that was brilliant) |
| 09:32 | | * Reiver grumps. Could /probably/ figure this one out, but it is seriously trying his patience, and feels rather more like Debugging Code than Playing Puzzle Games at this point. Gimmie a hint? https://i.imgur.com/eCLHDzv.png |
| 09:47 | <~Vornicus> | on the down-right 5 line |
| 09:48 | <~Vornicus> | 4 are marked already; the fifth must be one of the two atached to the 1 near the bottom |
| 09:48 | <~Vornicus> | So all the other cells in that diagonal are known clear |
| 09:48 | <&Reiver> | ... oh, right, thanks |
| 09:48 | <&Reiver> | I got "So one of these two is a mine, but I dunno which" |
| 09:48 | <&Reiver> | I forgot "And thus none of the others either" |
| 09:49 | <&Reiver> | Hexcells Plus feels like it picked up in difficulty roughly where Hexcells 1 left off |
| 09:56 | <&Reiver> | phew, done |
| 09:56 | <&Reiver> | Levels like that /seriously/ feel more like debugging than puzzling, though >_> |
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| 10:21 | <&McMartin> | Reiver: Yes, very much so. Infinite backslides the difficulty a great deal on its designed ones |
| 10:21 | <&McMartin> | ... I think |
| 10:21 | <&McMartin> | It's hard to tell because I'd just beaten Plus and was crackling with eldritch hexagonal power |
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| 10:31 | <&Reiver> | Yeeess |
| 10:31 | <&Reiver> | I dunno |
| 10:32 | <&Reiver> | I still enjoy most of the levels |
| 10:32 | <&Reiver> | But the question marks are a pretty blatant "Go away and stop doing the bit you enjoy" thing |
| 10:58 | <&Reiver> | Other complaint: I really wish you could pause a puzzle instead of quitting it |
| 10:58 | <&Reiver> | Because I'm off to bed and I'm not finishing this sucker tonight ;_; |
| 10:59 | <@TheWatcher> | Slepwell |
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| 14:28 | <@gnolam> | BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| 14:28 | <@gnolam> | So. There is a bit of $HARDWARE that a company has been nagging us to implement in our software. |
| 14:28 | <@gnolam> | Unfortunately: |
| 14:29 | <@gnolam> | * We know that its performance is crap, and end users like to blame software for hardware flaws. |
| 14:29 | <@gnolam> | * Its drivers are literally the worst I have ever seen, so during the few moments it has worked /at all/, it hasn't really been /usable/, which makes testing pretty hard. |
| 14:29 | <@gnolam> | So it's been put off until such time as there's actual customer demand and we have spare time to allocate it. |
| 14:30 | <@gnolam> | The stars finally aligned for that to happen. Actual customer demand plus a new hire who had time to deal with the manufacturer's shit. |
| 14:30 | <@gnolam> | An email has arrived from said new poor sod. |
| 14:30 | <@gnolam> | He has experienced an anomaly with his dev unit. |
| 14:31 | <@gnolam> | It just exploded. |
| 14:33 | <~Vornicus> | That.... counts as an anomaly. |
| 14:34 | <@TheWatcher> | Yep, sounds like a proper anomaly that. Even SpaceX use that term for that event. |
| 14:35 | <@gnolam> | And I mean actually, literally exploded. |
| 14:35 | <@gnolam> | There was a video attachment of the still smoking debris. You can hear the voice of our sales manager somewhere off camera going "GOD DAMN!". |
| 14:35 | <@TheWatcher> | I have to ask, what does this unit actually /do/? >.< |
| 14:42 | <@gnolam> | Waste dev time? :P |
| 14:43 | <@TheWatcher> | Actually, no, what does it do when it doesn't undergot rapid unplanned disassembly? >.> |
| 14:43 | <@TheWatcher> | *undergo |
| 15:21 | < Emmy> | sounds like a printer |
| 15:21 | < Emmy> | also, are you allowed to share that video fragment? |
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| 17:20 | <@gnolam> | TheWatcher: measures stuff. |
| 17:20 | <@gnolam> | And no, not TNT equivalent. |
| 17:44 | <@Tamber> | Clearly, when they send a replacement dev-unit, the camera needs to be set up and recording *before* the first power-on. |
| 19:13 | <@gnolam> | https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1072549780998578177 |
| 19:49 | <&McMartin> | Bomb calorimeter |
| 20:35 | <@Reiv> | those burn things to see how much energy was in them, right? |
| 20:40 | <&McMartin> | Correct |
| 20:41 | <&McMartin> | They are not in fact supposed to explode |
| 20:48 | <@Tamber> | It's a little less than optimal when they do that. |
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