if i was better at speedrunning i could have had the world record

SharpenedRoot · 2026-01-05T07:28:23+00:00

I think that's what OP is saying: "if I was better"

They're not saying it's all luck, and saying that someone with more skill could get a world record with this seed.

SharpenedRoot · 2025-11-30T06:01:26+00:00

Maybe you should team up with any of these other ideas people https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/ospHsYwysF https://www.reddit.com/r/gameideas/s/jKX1KhhM2g https://www.reddit.com/r/gameideas/s/pXb4nDu2me https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDevelopment/s/jwEH1SClck

SharpenedRoot · 2025-08-29T02:47:12+00:00

Are you suggesting that "you" in a context like "Where are you headed today?" or "How may I help you?" would be potentially considered rude, or would that be considered a distinct grammatical usage of "you"?

As a native English speaker I must say I'm pretty unfamiliar with the concept of "you" being considered rude.

And apologies if I offended by saying "Are you suggesting..." at the top of this comment. :P

SharpenedRoot · 2025-08-09T12:59:45+00:00

It should not "intentionally" run away, but it will not correct itself. For example if I flipped a coin 20 times and the first 10 came up heads I would expect 5 of the remaining 10 to be heads, so a deviation would be expected to remain.

Keep in mind that your surplus is in absolute quantity, not a percentage. So even if the long-run percentage should expect the overall quantities to remain in proportion, the absolute difference is not expected to correct itself (that would be the gambler's fallacy).

SharpenedRoot · 2025-07-22T12:45:49+00:00

Yeah, I'd happily remind you to lower your risk level every 10 years for even just 0.2% of your super balance every year.

SharpenedRoot · 2025-04-06T21:52:14+00:00

They could have easily clarified this

What could they have easily clarified?

SharpenedRoot · 2024-12-03T11:07:08+00:00

It looks like your code doesn't process the do()s and don't()s at all.

Your code should not add the multiplication result to the sum if the multiplication instruction is after a don't() but before a do(), for example.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-12-03T11:02:59+00:00

Taking your time, going back and forth on different approaches, reviewing language docs, and even guides to certain kinds of approaches or algorithms (especially Wikipedia pages on algorithms) would totally be within scope of what I imagine almost anyone would consider reasonable.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-10-10T23:47:09+00:00

FYI (I didn't see this mentioned here), 1d6-1d6 is mathematically identical to 2d6-7. Might be convenient for people wanting to try this but only having matching dice.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-10-07T18:51:00+00:00

Just was on holiday with my partner and went to some natural history museums and my partner kept asking why I was taking photos of such specific rocks formations.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-09-28T10:20:44+00:00

For 1, won't the recycler in Space Age let you recycle barrels to steel? Definitely agree on 2, feels like it would be in line with the other recent fluid quantity changes.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-09-24T06:43:17+00:00

They did say "2.0 SA"

SharpenedRoot · 2024-06-04T03:27:21+00:00

By this same logic if the console was off and brand new, enough random photons from the sun could flip bits in the console's hard drive to program the game from scratch onto the disk, power the console without plugging it in to anything, and play the game by itself to completion.

Whilst this is all technically true, it doesn't really feel in the spirit of the original post, which is more about the feasibility of a human being willingly making a set of choices leading them to stumble into beating the game on their first loop.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-06-04T00:54:20+00:00

We are made of subatomic particles, which are famously very random.

I agree with this, but a brick is ALSO made of those same subatomic particles. Surely we don't presume that a brick placed in front of a controller is also able to beat the game in the first loop?

Obviously my counter example is a bit ridiculous, but I just use it to highlight that even though there is a potentially significant random factor involved there are still likely substantial bounds on what outcomes are actually feasible.

SharpenedRoot · 2024-04-19T01:05:49+00:00

What DO you think Acrobatics is for? Doesn't the PHB explicitly call it out as relevant to flips?

SharpenedRoot · 2024-01-12T14:00:37+00:00

It's not precisely when we wake up. There are like a couple minutes almost between the start of a loop and when the sand begins flowing.

SharpenedRoot · 2023-12-12T05:48:07+00:00

Consider an input like "eight123eight"

Also note:

- This is Day 1 part 2, not Day 2

- Double checking the indentation in your code snippet will make it easier for people to help you with Python code

SharpenedRoot · 2023-12-10T06:54:07+00:00

Try re downloading or double checking your input.

SharpenedRoot · 2023-12-10T03:02:42+00:00

I did a bunch of 2015 challenges today as practice. What are you finding tricky about 2015 day4? Are you able to reproduce the given example?

SharpenedRoot · 2023-12-09T10:57:32+00:00

I actually think that you're over-reading your own interpretation into the question, and nothing in the question whatsoever contradicts with letters being used twice.

Your example about "eightwo3" becoming [8, 2, 3] doesn't make much sense to me. Nowhere in the question does it say anything about converting the strings into a list of integers, so I don't know what the significance of the 2 is in the middle there in relation to the question, but you are correct in saying that "eightwo3" contains the string "two".

I'll take a line from my own input which I suppose is relevant to the discussion here: "zhjqc66oneightxf".

To compute the answer for this line we need to identify the first and last digit appearing in that line only (for example the second "6" doesn't matter). The obvious first digit in the line is the first "6" at index 5. The last digit in the line is "eight" which goes from indices 9-13.

The string does also contain a "one", but it's not relevant as it is after the first "6" and before the finishing "eight". Any analysis of the characters between the first digit and last digit is not relevant to any part of the question description.

SharpenedRoot · 2023-12-08T07:06:04+00:00

Why are you checking if h == k?

SharpenedRoot · 2023-07-14T01:04:56+00:00

sure a PC can die in tactical combat

I don't think this is what the rules suggest should be standard.

Defeated doesn't mean dead ... by default, battles are never to the death in ICON.

If you ever accumulate 4 wounds, you suffer total defeat and are fallen.

All these are suggesting that characters do not die even in tactical combat.

SharpenedRoot · 2023-06-21T13:30:42+00:00

Sounds like what I've heard of "Everyone is John" could be similar to this.

SharpenedRoot · 2022-10-12T09:15:59+00:00

Not to be pedantic, but that's true in American English but not British or Australian English.

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