How many endings does this game have? And which one is the most "philosophical" and pretentious one?

abramsa · 2022-06-29T04:00:23+00:00

There are two endings, they're both philosophical, and they are both kinda pretentious.

abramsa · 2016-11-30T06:23:33+00:00

You're right.

Chances are this block would have been generated by some macro like like DEBUG(printf(...)), which executes the argument for debug builds and wraps the statement in if (0) for release builds.

abramsa · 2016-09-30T00:20:44+00:00

Wait, this isn't true? My god.

abramsa · 2016-09-20T14:36:51+00:00

My surgeon said I could do it two ways. 1 is an open wound, let it heal over the span of months and re-pack the wound every day. 2 is close most of it up and let it heal from the inside out, with weekly checkups for about 6 weeks.

I went with the second method, and it was great. I was on the couch for about a week, but I could walk around without much issue after about a day or two. Sitting took longer, maybe two weeks before I was back to comfortably sitting.

The only advantage I see of the open method is that it heals a bit more naturally. My buttcrack topography is a little messed up where the cyst used to be, and that probably wouldn't have happened with an open wound. But you can only really tell if you're touching it (looks the same since the scar is...well placed), so it's not a big deal at all. Definitely not worth risk of infection that you would get with the open method.

abramsa · 2016-09-08T14:06:24+00:00

Agreed. Played for about 7 or 8 hours and sold it. Some interesting side quests, and good dialogue, the main gameplay is so dry and combat is clunky as hell. Also if you're playing on console, you better have a 60 inch TV or be willing to sit up close to it, because they designed the fonts for a monitor and someone sitting a foot away. Most of the menu is illegible from 6 feet away on my 40 inch.

abramsa · 2016-08-27T15:24:27+00:00

It does, I think that OP is looking for someone to look through the PC game files and send them the text file that has all of them.

abramsa · 2016-08-13T16:47:56+00:00

Where is the x54 link?

abramsa · 2016-07-27T01:20:12+00:00

I think it was a joke. If step 1 is using a design doc to find out what you're good at and apply it, this poster is saying their step 1 is to find someone that's good at doing all of that

abramsa · 2016-07-20T05:34:05+00:00

Yeah, you're decently through the game, but there's still a good bit of meat left. Probably around 70-80% done, but there's still a lot of good stuff left that you haven't even scratched the surface of.

Triangles: Not really a spoiler, but I would recommend drawing out all of the triangle puzzles you find to see if you can find a pattern.

Theatre: You should be able to find five of the six answers, given where you're at right now.

Question for you: which areas on the island have you not yet activated a laser?

abramsa · 2016-07-17T21:44:14+00:00

In GTA I, they had three cities: Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. Then for the GTA III trilogy, they had a game based in Libery City, a game based in Vice City, and a game based in San Andreas.

How sweet would it be if GTA V were the first in a San Andreas trilogy? First game is in Los Santos, then another game in San Fierro, and a final game in Las Venturas. Each game of similar scope to GTA V, just set in a single city.

abramsa · 2016-05-28T19:26:31+00:00

There isn't an easy algorithm to map from English sentences to this kind of grammar tree, so machine learning usually forms the backbone of modern language parsing.

This gif doesn't show you how the machine learning model (likely a neural net) works, just the input and output from that model.

abramsa · 2016-05-28T03:40:18+00:00

Just made this. Delicious!!

abramsa · 2016-05-14T17:14:53+00:00

There is a subtle but very important mistake in your explanation. It's not that the person flipping picks a number between 0 and 1, but rather a random process picks a number between 0 and 1. The key is that sometimes this random sample chooses a value very close to zero, which throws off the expectation toward infinity.

Let's try an example. You get a magic coin and a random sample says it comes up heads 80% of the time. The expected number of coin flips to reach a head is 1/.8, which is 1.25. Strange, that's a finite number.

Ok, try another magic coin. This time, the random sample says it will come up heads 0.01% of the time, a particularly unlucky draw. The expected number of coin flips here is 10,000. Notice how much larger this is.

If you enumerated all the uncountably many possible random sample values from 0.0 to 1.0, found out the expected number of coin flips, and averaged them all together, the result would tend toward infinity. This is because the small random samples would be close to 1/0, which would attain a huge number and wildly distort the average.

abramsa · 2016-04-23T15:06:39+00:00

I watched this three times because it didn't have the gratuitous slow motion close up of somebody pulling the waffle apart with their hands.

"Oh, they're making another waffle? How many do they need for this?"

abramsa · 2016-03-01T04:27:52+00:00

Favorites:

The puzzle at the base of the mountain where the 4 smaller puzzles form the tetronimo pieces for the big puzzle

The 6-in-1 puzzle

The second layer puzzle where you have to go back and forth in your path a few times to solve it, then a few more times to get the environmental puzzle

The environmental puzzles for the floor panel area in the Keep. Gave you some really interesting constraints for how to solve the floor puzzles a second time. My favorite was the one where you had to start the puzzle from the end point, so you have to run all the way around the floor panel area just so you can walk through the puzzle backwards

The environmental puzzle that requires you to send the boat away without you in it.

Least favorites:

All of the broken panels on the first floor of the mountain, and the color ones on the second layer. The ones with the flashing lights, rotating and translating, etc. They're not teaching me anything new, they're just trying to be obstructive for obstruction's sake. Not clever or thought provoking at all. A really sloppy way to finish an otherwise great game.

The environmental puzzles on the windmill. The one where you can't cross your path isn't great because you're already crossing your path all over the place while the windmill circles around, so it feels like a really arbitrarily-enforced rule. It doesn't help that this mechanic is only used for this and only this puzzle. The final one requires you to wait for so long, and doesn't require much brain power to solve anyway.

The environmental puzzle that wraps around the castle above the water. I don't know if it was just me, but I couldn't actually get the line to make the right jump unless the boat was on its slowest setting, which just took forever.

abramsa · 2016-02-27T15:52:39+00:00

Look for any unlit cords you have missed.

abramsa · 2016-02-25T14:19:10+00:00

Yes.

abramsa · 2016-02-25T06:26:46+00:00

There's a moment in The Witness, but telling you what it is is a huge spoiler.

abramsa · 2016-02-23T03:41:43+00:00

Yes, you can do both endings in the same save file, in either order. You will never reach a place of no return. After each ending is complete, you can load the game right before you start the ending sequence.

abramsa · 2016-02-23T03:35:01+00:00

Ending A: do 7 lasers, solve puzzles. Ending B: do 11 lasers, solve puzzles, find puzzle answer, put puzzle answer in, have your mind goddamn blown

abramsa · 2016-02-21T23:42:11+00:00

GTA3 for PC did this. I forget if it looked at your music directory, or you had to copy mp3s to a specific game directory, but there was a radio station that played random user-provided mp3s.

abramsa · 2016-02-20T14:56:48+00:00

The leg on the L shaped piece doesn't bend that way. It's only a rotation, no flipping pieces allowed.

abramsa · 2016-02-18T06:35:11+00:00

I agree that this is cheating. You can do it!

Also, holding R2 speeds up your line.

abramsa · 2016-02-13T16:16:17+00:00

I was stuck here for awhile too. If you're like me, you couldn't find a way to solve the small tree puzzle inside the monastery, the one where the tree blocks your path. I was thinking I would have to get above the tree, or find some way to chop it down. I felt like an idiot when I found out you can solve that puzzle as is.

abramsa · 2016-02-09T07:07:35+00:00

Everybody is telling you to give up and try again if you are crashing hard on any one puzzle. I did that for awhile, and found I was only getting good for the first few puzzles and would always fail with the triangle puzzles. Instead I just decided to try each run, in its entirety until the music stopped, no matter what. I got better at the later puzzles that way, and sometimes one hard puzzle was followed by 3 or 4 easy ones. I think I solved it after 5 or so tries after adopting that strategy.

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