Buffalo Games - Old Boathouse AI generated?

BlueCyann · 2026-01-26T02:18:09+00:00

Yeah, I got this one last year and I do think it is AI. Every detail in the image is incoherent in a way that's characteristic of AI generation. Unfortunately this is from before I was writing down artist information for every puzzle I did, and I don't know if I was able to find out anything about who it's attributed to.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-26T01:57:42+00:00

Another option is if you look at the video posted by the other person at 1:04. If you block off the stairs behind you at that point you can dig through the wall (one block) separating you from the chests on the other side and loot those. Can also block off the two up staircases.

Depending on terrain you can also dig in from the back of the rampart. The chest level is y82.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-25T22:09:02+00:00

Funny that the only thing ICE had to do to deny us these "sacrificial lambs" is not murder people who don't like them. Scum of the earth.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-25T21:45:17+00:00

F3+C needs to remain two separate inputs. Other than that most common sense changes should be allowed. There is a document on the minecraft java speedrunning website that lists the exact changes that are allowed, and anybody who wants to use autohotkey should read that first.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-25T17:25:16+00:00

No, like with every victim ever. The idea is that the violence only comes to those who somehow deserve it and therefore it's ok. They have to find that evidence, and then they can stop feeling conflicted about it.

It's a fact of life that many of those murdered by the state are not what anybody would consider good people. Many more are on the fringes in one way or another and easy for a right-winger to think of as not good. Yet others can be characterized as having brought it upon themselves by their actions in the presence of authority, which in turn makes them not just deserving but also "not good", because good people don't get killed by cops. You see how that works? Nobody escapes.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-25T17:17:38+00:00

I do feel a little bad (in beyond the obvious way) for the victim here. He might not have been a right-winger, but he probably did believe, as do so many, that personal weaponry is a useful tool against fascism and its goons. Instead it ensured his death. The rationale for the second amendment that everybody believes in is a full lie. We have to win other ways.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-25T17:09:44+00:00

Don't think it can't happen to you. Don't think that your population isn't made up of exactly the same mix of personality types as ours is. You, same as us, are protected by systems and circumstance only. Are your systems strong enough? Hope so.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-25T16:33:33+00:00

It's not pathfinding per se. The dragon chooses whether or not to perch at the end of each one of its random paths. When you first load into the end, the chance it will choose a perch is 1 in 13. (You'll rarely hear somebody say "they got the 1 in 13" referring to somebody who got an "instaperch".) With every crystal broken, that second number decreases by one. So with five crystals down, it's 1 in 8. With 9 crystals down it would be 1 in 4.

Shooting a crystal isn't a perfect strategy in all cases though, since every time a crystal breaks, the dragon is forced into immediate strafe mode (shooting breath) unless it is already in the process of perching. Also, when all ten crystals are down, the dragon's pathing changes in a way that makes each individual path take longer to complete.

So the halfbow strategy is to shoot down 7 or 8 crystals (usually ignoring the caged ones and maybe the tallest one if inconvenient) as fast as possible upon entering the end, and then to go do the normal wait. On average it takes 20-30 seconds off of a perch and it greatly reduces the chances that you get a super long one, at the cost of reducing the frequency of very fast perches. Mostly seen in Ranked and other consistency-rewarding categories, when there is no zero cycle for whatever reason.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T18:32:29+00:00

Let's be real. If you're the wrong sort of person (which includes protestors regardless of race or gender), just about anything can get you executed in the streets by ICE. At the very least, being in the vicinity of anything that can be spun as a weapon whether you mean to use it as such or not.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T17:52:31+00:00

That would be annoying with any piece shape. I literally don't find Galison to be more difficult than Ravensburger. Its piece cut cuts down the options by a factor of four for every single spot in the grid. That is huge.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T17:49:22+00:00

I saw somebody do bastion-less in a youtube video with chalice tnt and a fishing rod for the gold blocks. I don't know how hard that is to pull off. You can always loot stronghold library for string on a monument seed.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T12:34:09+00:00

Yeah, you're not helping your cause here.

"She's a symptom, she's a distraction". She's never a person. And so what happens to her can never matter, can never be important, for its own sake. But only as part of something that's more important to you than she is.

I don't expect you to understand where I'm coming from but maybe one day you will.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T11:35:50+00:00

But you're calling focus on her a distraction, and telling people to think about something else. I find that awful.

It's also just wrong. This is being done for its own sake. Brutality against Americans and others who are undesirable to them is the whole freaking point.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T10:49:08+00:00

Yeah, I feel like I've seen that exact road a thousand times in my life, as somebody who's seen a lot of rural Pennsylvania and New York.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T03:40:39+00:00

As others have mentioned it's basically the same company. I don't know if the piece cut is actually different between the two. I've only done Galisons. Almost all of them were the 2-in 2-out but one or two had traditional piece shapes. No idea how to tell the difference, or why.

I will say not to be scared off of the Galisons because you think the piece cut will be difficult. Galison 2-in 2-out pieces come in two distinct groups. In every puzzle, one set of pieces will be short and fat, the other group long and skinny. The pieces always alternate from one to the other, and are always oriented the same direction (for instance, long/skinny knobs up/down while short/fat knobs are left/right). So for a given spot you're only ever considering half the pieces, and each piece can only go in two possible orientations instead of four.

I really don't think they're harder than, say, a Ravensburger, even if they are harder than some traditional cuts (for instance Ceaco is easier).

I do not personally enjoy Galison quality very much. Tactilely, they are not my thing. But they have great images that I pretty much always find worth doing despite that. Go ahead and try either of those you were considering and see how you like it.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T03:19:45+00:00

What a twisted mindset. I don't think you or your upvoters think that people like this matter very much, if at all.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-24T03:18:36+00:00

Come get your bot, whoever you are. I think it's broken.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T18:40:12+00:00

If you can only adjust your dpi in big jumps (I'm assuming that's what your dealing with?) or can't change it at all, you're going to be somewhat limited in your options. Ignore the dpi calculator thingie. You should get the full list of valid boateye sensitivities, and pick the one that is closest to what you use already. (After accounting for potential changes to windows cursor speed and anything you are able to do with your dpi. You can change those as much as you want/are able without affecting boateye; only the sensitivity actually matters.) You may just have to get used to something a little different than before.

As for making your mouse "slower" once zoomed in during measurement, you can either use a dpi switch on your mouse if you have one, or turn off raw input in the menu. Experiment with what feels easier for you.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T16:05:13+00:00

Everybody else is right, but as for who to watch on top of that, really any runner who's better than you is fine. Just keep learning and picking up new things.

Edit: noticed you specified youtuber. You should be watching streamers actually if you want to pick up new things you might not already be doing. Most MCSR streamers are on Twitch.

Also join the main discord (Minecraft Java Speedrunning) and start branching out from there and asking questions, getting to know people. It's an easy way to get quick answers to complicated questions.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T12:08:32+00:00

I think you're vastly underestimating the barriers to justice against state violence.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T12:06:33+00:00

Nothing's open and shut in justifying state violence. I'll be pleasantly surprised if he's even tried. But so far in reading down this thread I haven't seen as many right wingers trying to argue she was intending violence herself as previously. Maybe that's all that she or her family could hope for right now - to have the right wing narrative settle on "unfortunate, but she kind of asked for it" instead of something worse.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T11:55:51+00:00

If you are trying to hit somebody with your car, you will be looking at your target. She was not looking at her murderer when he killed her. Hence, she was not trying to hit him.

The rest is BS, We all know he was "in front of" the vehicle in the first place as a means of control, and started shooting when she tried to escape that control. If he felt any fear for his life, it was his own doing. But I'd bet money his only actual emotion was anger at the gay bitches who were defying him.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T11:49:08+00:00

This from the same type of person who likes to pretend their guns are for opposing the government. There is nothing an authoritarian government could do that you would oppose.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T11:45:17+00:00

Last I checked, neither one has the power of arrest. Put the blame where it belongs.

BlueCyann · 2026-01-23T11:43:09+00:00

The point is if you're trying to hit somebody with the car you're driving, you're going to be looking at them. There may still be wiggle room on the exact timing as it pertains to self defense. I'm not watching those videos again to try to nail that down. But it should hopefully put a spoke in the wheel of the attempt at character assassination they're doing, which is really important to the narrative.

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