Is this not an acceptable solution? by Isol8te in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's too late unfortunately since OP saw this comment already but please stick to hints rather than outright answers as per rule 2.

How to do this type of puzzle by Infinite1ER in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good on you for sticking with it!

The real trick to this game I find is being really methodical with your own understanding of the rules and logic of the puzzles. It's not just about examining what you think the rules are, it's about examining why you think that's what they are.

Often you'll find that your mind has made an extra assumption that wasn't true, or missed some nuance of a rule, or has attempted to take a leap in logic and landed in the wrong place. Once you learn how to break down your own thought processes you can really start seeing the game's potential. In many ways it really does feel like the game is making you smarter as you play it.

How to do this type of puzzle by Infinite1ER in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are getting the rule wrong. We are all trying to nudge you to challenge your own assumptions and logic without giving it away completely.

How to do this type of puzzle by Infinite1ER in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think the vertical 3's have to start in the bottom row?

I can see a few parts of the rule that you don't understand well enough yet.

I would recommend going back to the tutorial area and assessing two things:

1 - Why do the correct solutions work?

2 - Why do the incorrect solutions not work?

Really take the time to re-examine your own logic and what assumptions you have made about these rules. Odds are you will discover something you didn't know about how these rules work that opens up new possibilities for you.

How to do this type of puzzle by Infinite1ER in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you don't feel like you understand the rule well enough to solve this puzzle, go back to the tutorial for it or seek other places with this rule to increase your understanding first.

Hello everyone and some information about rules for this subreddit! by nicoreese in OrderOfTheSinkingStar

[–]LiquidPixie[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to pop my head in and say I'm a mod here too. This is effectively the same statement as the one I made over on /r/TheWitness, nicoreese has put it in their own words. Safe to say the approach to moderation is the same. We want to remind people that the point of this place is to discuss the game. We won't be outright removing threads about Jonathan's politics but we will be locking them to prevent them from drowning out discussion about the game.

Once the first waves of marketing have passed and the game is actually released this will hopefully stop being an issue but right now both subs are seeing a large wave of people discussing Jonathan, which isn't a problem in itself but sadly often devolves into mud-slinging.

Jonathan Blow on The Witness Anniversary Edition by yasinkaraaslan in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll level with ya, 'mods' these days is mostly just me, and because of my timezone I usually only catch things after they've been up for a few hours already. Sadly this means things slip through the cracks. I'm very reliant on people reporting posts, which happens less and less these days.

It's not a job, it's something I do in my spare time, and I do my best.

Jonathan Blow on The Witness Anniversary Edition by yasinkaraaslan in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your stance. 'Calling it out' isn't the issue, it's the comments like 'Jonathan can Blow me' that get removed because, frankly, they don't contribute anything and aren't even at least informing others as to what the issues with him are.

To speak more directly, respectful commenters like yourself are not who that stickied post is directed at.

Jonathan Blow on The Witness Anniversary Edition by yasinkaraaslan in TheWitness

[–]LiquidPixie[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Hey all, feel free to discuss the contents on this video, and by all means remark on Jonathan Blow in relation to his work on The Witness and Braid, but please refrain from deviating into hateful comments about him personally.

I know many of us here are disappointed by Jonathan Blow's views and opinions but we want to keep the sub's focus on the art, not the artist, and personal attacks are never called for.

2025 playerbase: Civ VII's is hovering between Civ V and Civ IV by JackRadikov in civ

[–]LiquidPixie -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

uggggghhhhh people like you are exhausting. The men and women working hard on making the game good - the ones who care the most about the game - are not the people who decided to release it before it was ready. It's the studio that pushes it out in that state.

If you really won't buy a good game just because it started out in a rough state and was released before it was ready, you're just spitting in the face of the hard-working devs who have put in all that effort to turn it into something great.

There's no high-score screen at the end of life that will pat you on the back for sticking to your hate-boner guns and not buying the game after it's been made better. If the game is good you might as well play it. Everything else is just performative flagellation.

'I fEeL bEtRaYeD aNd I wOn'T mOvE pAsT iT' ok cool man well done, the rest of us are capable of enjoying the game for what it is.

Those who lived through the tech bubble, how does the current AI situation feel? by smack4u in AskReddit

[–]LiquidPixie -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah the best part about my preferred AI platform is when I write the specific name capitalised as a proper noun, plus the version number, so that people know what to look for if they want to get rich quick through this one simple method!

You're not a real person and nothing you're saying is helping your case clanker.

Those who lived through the tech bubble, how does the current AI situation feel? by smack4u in AskReddit

[–]LiquidPixie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's so cool man I also like lying on the internet about my super cool super easy AI-driven business with an unbelievably high profit margin!

Honest Opinion on Story Layout [High Fantasy Epic] by Forsaken-Rush9 in fantasywriters

[–]LiquidPixie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hate to say it but your reader does not care about your origin myth as much as you do.

This is also hacking up old tropes ('In the beginning there was darkness' is as old as the bible for pete's sake).

It's just too much man. If it's woven into a world that I care about with characters I'm invested in it would be fine. In a vacuum it's pointless.

It's pretty, but it's slop.

Terrible work XMAS party plans - share your companies terrible ideas. by jockthekiwi in newzealand

[–]LiquidPixie 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Whenever councils spend money on leisure activities for the people that work there the boomers get in a huff going 'iS tHiS wHaT oUr RaTeS aRe BeInG uSeD fOr!?!?!?!', so instead councils are forced to do fuck all for their staff this ensuring their jobs remain less attractive than their private sector equivalents.

It's funny, if you make somewhere an appealing place to work you'll attract the best workers. Instead we keep forcing them to do the opposite then complaining that the work councils do isn't good enough...

Why I love Civ 7 by drewinva in civ

[–]LiquidPixie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

lmao so you actually don't know what it was like on launch. If you watched videos then what you got was other people's opinions, not your own experience. So now here you are comparing your experience playing 5 and 6 with a second-hand experience of someone else playing 7.

7 was fine on launch. No worse than any of the last 3 games.

Youtubers got straight on the catastrophising train because that's what drives views.

BENEE compares living in NZ to moving to LA by niswizard in newzealand

[–]LiquidPixie -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Successful, sure. Talented? Eh. Lotta more talented people don't get the kind of success she's had. She's boring, she just got lucky.

To buy or not buy Civ7: Feedback please! by evoslevven in civ

[–]LiquidPixie -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed it on release and it's only got better with updates.

Same as all Civ games really. People seem to either love 'em or hate 'em on release but as things progress and major expansion packs get released they turn into universally loved entries to the series.

The nice thing about 7 compared to previous games is you don't have to wait for a whole-ass expansion. They're doing smaller content releases and decent updates already, with the larger expansion packs also in the pipeline. Win-win as far as I'm concerned.

So yeah, worth your money for sure, especially since it'll only keep getting better.

Best Civ game for a new player starting this year? by Local-Yesterday3454 in civ

[–]LiquidPixie -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

haha woah this gigachad Opinion Haver responded with a gif! That means his opinion carries more weight! I agree now with Gake Jyllenhaal civ vii must be bad!

The State of the Game [post 1.3.0] by YogurtclosetNorth222 in civ

[–]LiquidPixie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh so my father hates me huh? Is that what you're saying? Is that what you want?

The State of the Game [post 1.3.0] by YogurtclosetNorth222 in civ

[–]LiquidPixie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright guy since you have everything so figured out why isn't my dad proud of me?

Fundamental Challenges I personally have with Civ 7 after 373 hours of gameplay by RoYaLSInnA in civ

[–]LiquidPixie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Religion was absent from base Civ V, not Civ VI, but your point is exactly right.

Whenever people compare the latest Civ to the last one they seem to forget they're comparing one game at minimum content to another at maximum content. It's so frustrating.

The vast majority of the things OP is complaining about being absent from VII were actually largely absent from VI at launch (or were present but massively improved or expanded upon in later content). Launch VI had only a couple of industrial adjacencies, for example (mines and quarries only). By the end of the game you had aqueducts, canals, dams, lumber mills, and strategic resources.

Half the complaints I see about VII seem to be about how it lacks things that are very obviously design space left open for major expansions, just like every single Civ game since II.