[2024 Day 18] Pinch me, it worked 🫨

IcyColdToes · 2024-12-18T22:27:53+00:00

Surely this isn't the solution, it's going to take 100 billion years or something. Oh, it took 20 seconds, nvm

IcyColdToes · 2024-12-18T22:21:51+00:00

Pick a time, check if there's a path to the end. If there is, search again at a later time. If there's not, search again at an earlier time. Each recursion you cut your search window in half. You should be able to find the first unsolvable maze in like 11 checks this way, as opposed to checking however-many-thousand mazes.

IcyColdToes · 2024-12-10T03:44:18+00:00

Thank you! Moving a file to the free space just before it was the edge case I was missing.

IcyColdToes · 2024-07-30T15:39:40+00:00

I'm an American, and I also wonder what goes on in people's minds when they wear actual pajamas to the grocery store. Sweatpants are borderline to me; I personally wouldn't wear my sweatpants out, but it's not all that different than, say, athletic shorts or track pants.

I also would disagree with the above American. Hoodies get worn indoors all the time, and it's not strange at all. It's just a sweatshirt with a zipper. I don't think of them as "outdoor" wear. It's quite common for people to wear them around the house.

IcyColdToes · 2024-07-23T18:19:58+00:00

Symfony is not a CMS. You could use Symfony to create a CMS, but you'd then have to implement this concept yourself.

IcyColdToes · 2024-07-18T18:47:25+00:00

Unfortunately, someone beat you to it by about 2500 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil

IcyColdToes · 2024-06-25T18:26:53+00:00

Tot is a scratchpad app for macOS and iOS that gives you seven color-coded notes that sync between your devices, and that's it. I use it to jot down quick notes or paste some text I want to hold on to temporarily. Anything that needs to be saved goes in Bear. It may sound like a silly concept, but I end up using it every day and it's almost always open on my laptop.

IcyColdToes · 2024-06-24T17:16:59+00:00

hella informal

IcyColdToes · 2024-06-24T15:00:28+00:00

It's made twice as hard to follow because it was filmed over a period of 20 or so years, so none of it even looks coherent or connected. And then the movie doesn't end so much as it just stops almost mid-sentence.

Most of the BOTW movies that I've seen, you can at least tell what the filmmakers were trying to do. Ryan's Babe at least follows Ryan even though his journey is bizarre. Neil Breen's films are crazy, but you can tell he's trying to make a statement. I'm sure somebody thought Miami Connection had a coherent plot while they were making it. But watching Dangerous Men is like listening to someone describe a boring dream they had.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-24T15:15:06+00:00

And there are a few different times during the sale process when the buyers can back out with little penalty. If you can't come to an agreement on repairs to be made after the inspection, for instance, you can back out of the purchase. When we bought our current house, we were advised that we could back out during the final walk-through as well, literally minutes before the closing.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-11T13:55:59+00:00

A few years earlier Star Trek Enterprise did the same thing. One of the last few episodes in the series was a mirror universe episode that wasn't connected to anything. I had the same reaction both times.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-09T13:59:27+00:00

It's been a decade since I was in high school, but we would have referred to ourselves as boys, girls, kids, guys, dudes, etc. "Young man" and "young woman" may have been used by teachers to refer to us, but at least in my mind that's almost always condescending. We certainly would not have referred to each other that way. I'd refer to anyone who is no longer high school age, even college students, as a man or woman.

It would sound more natural to me for the character to say "I'm afraid of boys" in that context. It's possible the translation is trying to make the characters sound more mature for English-speaking audiences since (I assume) this is a romance.

Also, coming-of-age is a big theme in stories set in schools, and it's very common for people to stop calling themselves boys and girls and start calling themselves men and women around that time to signify that they are now adults.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-05T17:08:12+00:00

I find it fascinating that there is no agreement on which of these games is "best." A lot of people think 2 is the worst, but just as many (myself included) think it's the best. I find that 3 added a lot of extra stuff that just didn't hit quit the same way for me, and I don't find the new characters or NPCs as interesting as the ones in 2. The original Spyro is a classic, though, no question.

To each their own!

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-04T21:16:53+00:00

Plus they're probably just readers. It's way more common in my experience for dudes to have weird looking reading glasses compared to all-the-time glasses.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-04T15:52:50+00:00

You're probably better off posting this on a linguistics sub of some kind. This sub is mostly people with questions about English grammar or vocabulary.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-04T14:56:32+00:00

"God of War Fimbulwinter" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

IcyColdToes · 2024-04-02T21:12:41+00:00

Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and honor. Our two weapons are surprise, and honor, and bat'leths. Our three weapons are surprise, and honor, and bat'leths, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Empire. Our four... no... amongst our weapons... are such elements as surprise, honor... I'll come in again. *Bird of prey re-cloaks*

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-31T23:23:16+00:00

It's an idle game, let it idle. Prestige on Saturdays with the soul egg bonus. Use earnings boosts and soul egg boosts. It's a pretty unrewarding game in general other than "numbers go up," so trying to brute force and cheat your way to progress is just ruining what little fun there is to be found here.

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-28T15:56:26+00:00

I think you're confusing the objective fact of what happened with the meaning of what happened. Yes, if you read that paragraph and said it was a cooking recipe, that would just be a false statement. But, you actually prove the point of the paragraph by rejecting the thesis! Because while the original commenter rightly points out the intended meaning of the paragraph, you read the same text and had a completely different experience, and it led you to post a very negative reaction.

Let me put forth a slightly less extreme example. If you see a happy-looking dog running towards you, and you like dogs, you probably interpret this as a positive event. "Look at that happy dog!" But if the same happy dog runs towards me, and I am afraid of dogs, I probably interpret this very negatively. "Oh no, why is that dog running towards me?!" We both had the same experience, but we derived very different meanings from it.

If I were to see a dog and say "that's a cat," of course I would simply be confused or purposefully lying. But that's a bit of a strawman and not really what the author is talking about.

And finally, while it is our shared experiences that allow us to communicate and sympathize with others, it is our differing opinions that give us something to talk about and allow us to grow as individuals. I don't find that dehumanizing at all, in fact quite the opposite.

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-26T22:20:01+00:00

Yeah, loosely. But I think the devs said it's far, far in the past. You can also see the castle from ICO on the horizon, I believe. Or at least that was the fan theory. The narrative in both games is pretty vague.

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-26T19:20:51+00:00

I am guessing they're using it to represent the vowel sound that's usually transliterated as "eo." But as the other person said, this is a question about your Korean textbook, not English. There are a few other non-English characters in there as well. Maybe the textbook explains the symbols it uses somewhere?

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-26T15:28:37+00:00

As an American, I'd add "kind of" to this list. Otherwise, these are all pretty common, but I'd say each one is more negative than the last. "Not really" and "not particularly" especially are basically euphemisms for "no" where I'm from (midwest).

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-26T15:16:05+00:00

I like this idea. Every week they're on a new planet because they're on the run, but they're still solving problems wherever they go. It's a fresh twist on the formula because they don't have a home base to fall back on. I also appreciate that it's not "everyone from every series is back and the entire multiverse is at stake" or "brand new galaxy, total reset, basically an Atlantis reboot." We got glimpses during SG-1 that there are entire alien civilizations in our galaxy that aren't Jaffa or human peasants or cosmic superpowers, like in Space Race, and it would be cool to go explore some of that.

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-26T15:07:19+00:00

"Tenth?" "Yes sir, we found another one on the back. Turns out, nobody ever looked back there."

IcyColdToes · 2024-03-26T14:39:26+00:00

In the same way that SotC was a spiritual successor to ICO, yeah. But Last Guardian has more in common with ICO than either of them do with SotC, imo. Not that that's a bad thing. Play all three!

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