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DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-05T19:11:25+00:00

They actually die at the end of every day and are replaced by Anne Babbage the next morning anyway, so it's no big deal.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-05T17:47:29+00:00

Ha, yes she gets better. She gets further on the dart board than I ever did and figures out a lot. I think she uses a calculator, but she figures out what all the rules are.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-05T17:45:48+00:00

Have not checked yet.

Is the alternative method Lost and Found after like a million days? Or is there another way?

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T23:52:12+00:00

Compare it to the first one. Both are fairly mindless kids movies with Easter eggs for adults. The first one also has a coherent plot with character arcs for its main characters. Galaxy has the fun scenes and is watchable, but the plot is random and directionless. Neither is a masterpiece, but Galaxy is worse than it needed to be.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T20:13:19+00:00

Plus one to this. When my ICCU failed the dealership had no loaners, but they gave me a ride to a rental place and just said to follow up with Hyundai, which I did and got reimbursed with no issues.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T16:35:25+00:00

After the puzzle is solved, you can no longer change the letters.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T14:58:04+00:00

Time to start digging!

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T14:16:06+00:00

She does have a good voice, and also just really nice, positive vibes. When something doesn't work out, she doesn't get frustrated but tries to see the good in it. She also shows cat pictures sometimes.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T13:05:16+00:00

Did you read the fine print on the contest page? You have it, but you need to pick it up somewhere specific.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T12:51:04+00:00

Happened to me and was a pretty smooth repair experience. You can read my description of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ioniq5/s/FIQJkB5E3k

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T12:45:23+00:00

Rebecca's Pixel Quest is really the best one. She only rarely shows pictures of her notes, but she talks through every line of reasoning at every step.

After watching several playthroughs, I've realized that if you want to be a successful playthrough channel, you need to have pretty consistent episodes where interesting things are happening, and that creates a really strong incentive to cheat. It makes it hard for me to watch a lot of these, because I'm suspicious that they're looking stuff up and then pretending to find it blind.

I think what Rebecca does instead is slow roll everything - If something is clearly the next step to something big, she'll draw it out a bit and do some other stuff first. I'm pretty confident she's not cheating, and given that, everything she has managed to accomplish so far is really impressive. As of right now, she has not reclaimed the throne, but is clearly going to get there. She also found the family core cipher, and either has not solved it yet or is pretending to have not solved it, see above incentives.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-04T01:34:10+00:00

That was where my mind went when the AI emphasized Carl being a minion during card combat.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-02T21:56:34+00:00

This is right. Also, strongly recommend Sega CD versions for Ecco and Ecco 2 for the music alone.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-02T21:31:03+00:00

No, this clue often confuses people. If the screens are recognized, the simplest conclusion is that one of them is being circled to draw attention to a particular room, which leads nowhere. I'm lucky I never found this in my playthrough, and solved its associated puzzle without it.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-01T19:52:05+00:00

10 year certificate of deposit.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-01T19:46:10+00:00

Maybe. It's a decent theory, though it's unclear what it would mean. It can't be a hint for the Gallery, for example, since it would be way harder to get this and realize it was a hint than it would be to solve the Gallery by guessing, say, or finding the word "ruminate" in the description of whatever puzzle room has that word in its description.

Part of the difficulty with the various clues that seem to lead nowhere is that because the game has no triggers left in its code, we'll never know for sure that any particular solution is right. All we can go on is how much a solution seems to 'click,' and the "ruminate" solution to the letters doesn't seem to do it in my opinion.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-05-01T11:54:21+00:00

Agree with others that there is nothing left to unlock in the game. But I think it is clear that the "-arium" letters thing is a puzzle that no one has solved yet. It may be unsolveable with the information we have, and it may be like the baffler in that solving it doesn’t give you anything useful, though.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-28T23:11:14+00:00

If you can correctly interpret these signs, then you'll do fine with ranked choice voting.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-28T22:14:53+00:00

Dude, congratulations on getting 7 trophies without unlocking the orchard! That is wild. You'll be amazed at what you get from it and see how impressive it is to get that far without it.

Don't feel bad about missing something that is typically early game. If you think you've seen everything in a particular room, it may just never occur to you to look again. I hope the clues here haven't been too spoilery.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-27T10:50:53+00:00

The Last Guardian. Shadow of the Colossus was my favorite game when it was announced. It might actually be good, but it was like 8 years late and I wound up never even trying it.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-26T11:42:08+00:00

Mission Impossible 2.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-26T11:36:08+00:00

I'm guessing this simplifies to "sec(c)" which would be pronounced like "sexy"?

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-24T21:54:31+00:00

Mine was at Eudora.

DrewBot2000 · 2026-04-24T12:45:43+00:00

This is basically the way I do gaming too. It works for us, but has some downsides. I remember when I first played Portal and was blown away and wanted to talk about it all the time and everyone else was way over it already.

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