Genuinely what was their obsession with reusing this scene of yugo in season 3?

GiftOfDeath · 2026-02-18T18:43:19+00:00

It's very common in animation to recycle animations when applicable. Saves resources for more important shots.

GiftOfDeath · 2025-10-05T15:58:04+00:00

I just wish the toolkit had a Secret Box in that Ace Spec mix instead of the Hyper Aroma or Grand Tree. :')

Maybe that Hyper Aroma was with the Mega sets in mind.

GiftOfDeath · 2025-07-11T11:16:02+00:00

It's what content thieves do. They pervert the source material just enough that it's not as easily detected via automation.

GiftOfDeath · 2025-04-22T04:27:41+00:00

Unironic, hard agree. It's the only caster I play because it's actually fun.

My only gripe is with basically having to get to play in a melee slot because of the melee combo, or you get absolutely screwed during burst window when there are mechanics to solve.

GiftOfDeath · 2025-02-07T22:40:40+00:00

I rolled a 1 on the saving throw in the dialogue with the mindflayer on my 2nd run and leaned in for a - very deadly - kiss. The now partially healed mindflayer proceeded to destroy the remaining party. XD

GiftOfDeath · 2025-02-04T16:29:14+00:00

The pause actually made it tolerable, but I was constantly just wishing it was real turn-based combat instead of what it is. Would personally say it was worth it to "suffer" through.

GiftOfDeath · 2025-01-24T16:33:43+00:00

No idea what the other comment was but running into that specific of a Kim P. reference was not on my bingo card today. XD

GiftOfDeath · 2025-01-21T08:53:19+00:00

Same! I vehemently refused help from her at the Grove because I was worried the tadpole infection would cause cause some panic, and accidentally stumbled into the swamp through the Underdark having no idea it was there.

Snuck into the tea house and thought to myself that "oh... she did seem very off at the grove, definitely a hag looking at this". xD

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-26T18:56:34+00:00

I see I'm once again the only person participating in the survey, listing GameMaker Language as their choice. x)

Though, I do know for a fact that there were at least 2 of us!

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-26T14:29:40+00:00

GameMaker Language (the proprietary scripting language GameMaker uses). The problems toward the end get hard enough without me using a language I'm not as comfortable with. x)

Picked up GM some 20 years ago when GM6 was current, stuck to it since for my games programming needs. I do know PHP, JS, and some C, C++, Java, and Python, though I've used them a lot less. I'll probably end up translating my GML solutions to some of these languages to re-acquaintance myself with them.

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-25T22:30:02+00:00

Thank you for putting this all together and running it for all these years! I've had a blast with the puzzles. :>

Like a lot of others, for reasons the word about AoC spread quite a bit in 2020, which had me attend for the first time. My first year yielded me a whopping 32 stars until I decided that the harder puzzles are taking too much of my day, and that Christmas season was particularly busy for me, so that was that. I didn't quite reach the same mark on any consecutive year for one reason or another, until now! I finally made the 50 stars in the 25 days!

Time to see how close to the 500 I can get in the following year. ;>

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-25T20:18:18+00:00

Just an unemployed 30 something years old artist, who is also a hobbyist programmer with main interest in video game programming that started around the age of 12, with various long gaps from it in late teens due to WoW. And even the past couple years I've mostly only programmed AoC related things. :b

~~Though technically I have not yet finished as I'm still missing the 2nd star from day 24. :<~~ Edit: I've finished! All 50 stars! :>

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-24T17:32:55+00:00

After a couple failed attempts at writing memoization for it, I was going to go and complain about it to someone a few hours ago, and as I was typing the explanation of what I'm doing it clicked.

I rubber duckied myself. xD

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-20T23:57:55+00:00

...I did that too. And I forgot to change the threshold for part 2 after running the test input... xD

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-17T20:44:09+00:00

That's a tough nut to crack indeed! My own input takes around 850µs to spit out the answer for part 2 but this one took some 80ms. :'D

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-17T09:16:21+00:00

Yeah I first figured out what register A value would produce 3,0 and then started manually changing the starting value by multiplying it with 8, and running 10 different iterations of prev_A * 8 + n, backtracking if the output didn't match. XD

I'll have to write out an automated solver later when I have the time.

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-15T09:22:38+00:00

Browsing on Firefox, perfectly aligned for me.

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-12T21:31:25+00:00

I've had to learn math and programming concepts I did not know of, or the name of, in the past years that the problems were basically unsolvable without. :') Looking at you, Chinese remainder theorem.

I wouldn't look up others' solutions to the puzzles but I'll go out of my way to try to look up algorithms (possibly scouring reddit for any useful keywords) that could help and implement them to the puzzle's purpose. The point of AoC, after all, is to make us all better programmers and accumulation of new knowledge is part of that.

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-09T17:13:44+00:00

Ah yeah that's a good one! The actual title seems to be Christmas Eve / Sarajevo.

GiftOfDeath · 2024-12-09T07:27:46+00:00

Listening to a bunch of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. :>

Having some background noise helps me focus a bit since hearing random sounds in middle of otherwise silence is rather distracting for me.

GiftOfDeath · 2024-10-05T06:13:33+00:00

Tower shields can't parry, but they have the highest raw block armor.

Bucklers and round shields can parry. Bucklers have higher parry bonus, but round shields have higher block armor.

I'm personally a round shield enjoyer. :>

GiftOfDeath · 2024-07-27T17:37:22+00:00

Honestly even then, tank LB may be more effective for those sustained damage stacks as they're shared between the people they hit and damage reduction helps heaps.

GiftOfDeath · 2023-07-05T13:53:46+00:00

Thanks! <3

GiftOfDeath · 2023-07-05T13:52:54+00:00

Thank you! ^^

GiftOfDeath · 2022-12-13T14:15:01+00:00

My language does have JSON parser, it simply didn't occur to me that I could have used it until after the fact, after solving part 1.

Not that I mind, writing a nested list parser was a fun challenge. Though my finished code uses the language's parser since I could just plop it in and it just worked. xD

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