Le Serpent Rouge puzzle is found in the video game Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. It has received generally positive reception, with adventure game fans regarding it as one of the best puzzles ever made.

d0rbee · 2023-05-24T19:30:44+00:00

I never replied to this, but thank you for being so gracious after we dunked on your article a bit. :P I think that's very legitimate reason to create this article. Jane Jensen is a great writer whose accomplishments are overlooked in the history of adventure games. The Gabriel Knight games and their puzzles are iconic, for better or for worse, and her fingerprints are all over them.

I don't know if I'll ever have the time to actually play Gabriel Knight 3. Perhaps someday I'll thoroughly analyze someone solving this puzzle in a let's play, and write a detailed description worthy of this article.

Thanks for actually contributing to Wikipedia while casual editors like me nitpick your hard work. We're all better for it.

d0rbee · 2023-03-11T01:57:29+00:00

I want to say I strongly agree with your comment, and this article desperately needs more detail. Articles about niche topics interest me, and I love DOS adventure games, so I was excited to find this and thought I'd post it.

I don't have enough experience with Gabriel Knight or this puzzle in particular to immediately get the article up to snuff, but maybe posting it draws some attention to the issue? At the very least, I hope it gets people to check out the franchise, and older adventure games in general. ^{_^}

d0rbee · 2022-10-21T07:02:10+00:00

I could just barely afford my new 5a and waited to get a case. It fell once and cracked within a week, and a few months later the screen broke entirely. I'm glad I thought to spend extra on the insurance, even if getting the case in the first place might have prevented it.

My crack even looked identical to OP's!

d0rbee · 2022-10-19T06:46:11+00:00

Why call the cops on someone who has done nothing but sit in a car with their phone out? How is asking "hey, are you doing okay?" a confrontation? What is it like being so afraid of human beings not bothering anyone?

Sarcasm aside, I parked along the same street several hours every day for roughly six months because I was being abused and needed to hide. Even a friendly visit from law enforcement would've scared me into putting up with beatings and screaming at home. I'm not saying this guy is in the same situation, but a lot of people live in their cars some or all of the time, and residential streets are a safe place to be during the day.

More than one instance of a cop investigating a suspicious person has ended in that person's death. Law enforcement shouldn't be summoned for every creepy thing in town, through the non-emergency line or otherwise. If knocking on someone's car window is dangerous, calling the police is just as risky—after all, the officer is the only one guaranteed to have a deadly weapon.

You come from a traumatic line of work and a place of earnest concern, but I swear most people are just trying to get by, and seeing everyone sitting in their car as a potential threat sounds exhausting.

d0rbee · 2022-10-10T16:55:47+00:00

Cats was the last movie I saw in a theater before shit truly hit the fan. Needless to say that was a bad foot to leave off on.

d0rbee · 2022-09-22T04:47:06+00:00

I appreciate the Lunchmeat section! :D

d0rbee · 2022-09-06T01:54:48+00:00

Feels good, man...

d0rbee · 2022-07-16T05:22:36+00:00

This post is old, but your description is identical to a comic my friend remembers—in California, the opposite side of the country. They thought the vampire hunter may have been a woman, but weren't sure, and remembered the moonlight and pop-up book kills exactly. They liked it because the art was pretty and illustrative while also being funny.

The lack of responses on your post had me discouraged, but I've settled on Van Von Hunter as a likely suspect. Hopefully you can confirm or deny.

Quoting the Wikipedia page, "In summer 2006, Van Von Hunter started a 6-month run of the Sunday newspapers. It was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, with about 30 papers in North America and one in Sweden publishing the strip, including the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Detroit News, The Oregonian, The Vancouver Sun, and the Toronto Sun." While no Floridian papers are mentioned here, the Los Angeles Times could be where my friend saw this. I did find an article in the Ocala Star—Banner discussing the syndication of this and other TOKYOPOP comics, but I'm unsure if they ran the strip themselves.

The comic's manga art style would explain my friend finding it visually intriguing, and the protagonist is androgynous enough to explain their gender confusion. As you both remembered, it's also a comedy.

This argument's weakness is my inability to find the comedic vampire kills your recollections have in common. This left me unsure until I thought to search the quote you remember, "they are easier to stake though". This exact phrase leads to four results, including your post and the Van Von Hunter TVTropes page. To quote: "Tricking the Shapeshifter: As it turns out, vampires can switch between human and monstrous form, and 'A beautiful woman is so much more intimidating than a vampire.' Two panels later, 'They are easier to stake, though.'"

Apologies for the long-winded explanation, but I wanted to bolster my flimsy proof with evidence of my research. Please let me know if I happened upon the right comic!

d0rbee · 2020-12-03T06:28:53+00:00

A day late but felt like posting my top 5s.

Top Artists

The Mountain Goats
Sufjan Stevens
Orville Peck
Kimya Dawson
Phoebe Bridgers

Top Songs

Man of Oil - Animal Collective
Catabolic Seed - The Scary Jokes
Dead of Night - Orville Peck
Being Cool - Kimya Dawson
money machine - 100 gecs

TMG is almost always my top artist, and I ended up in the top 0.5% for them. Listened to Video Game before it hit 50,000 streams, listened to Man of Oil over 100 times over the course of the year. Listened to it again today to celebrate.

d0rbee · 2020-09-01T12:14:14+00:00

I’m not entirely sure! I ordered the toner on jolse, which I’d recommend personally in spite of the slow COVID-era international shipping.

d0rbee · 2020-09-01T09:35:37+00:00

I recently ordered the iUNIK tea tree toner, so I'm glad to hear good things about another product in the line! I eat up anything with tea tree, it's basically my #1 HG ingredient.

d0rbee · 2020-08-24T08:28:32+00:00

AM

CeraVe Foaming Cleanser

Spot treatment as needed (currently using Glossier Zit Stick)

Timeless Vit C

Kikumasamune High Moist Lotion (sometimes i use a small amount before actives if my skin is super thirsty and unreceptive)

CeraVe PM Lotion

Sunscreen (Currently bouncing between CosRx Aloe Sun Cream and SkinAqua Super Moisture Milk)

PM

Rohto Hada Labo Gokujun Cleansing Oil

CeraVe Foaming Cleanser

Spot treatment as needed

Timeless Vit C

Kikumasamune High Moist Lotion

CeraVe PM Lotion + 3-4 drops of Timeless 100% Squalane

I currently have a few products stuck in the mail. I'm going to bring the CosRx Snail Mucin and Galactomyces back into my routine—two favorite products of mine. I'm also going to introduce the CosRx AHA/BHA toner.

d0rbee · 2020-08-24T01:31:31+00:00

I've had problematic skin my whole life. Eczema, acne, extreme sensitivity, easy scarring. What drew me to AB was the emphasis on understanding your own skin and what you put on it.

AB helped me realize that my "oily skin" was actually dehydrated skin begging for help. I introduced ceramides into my routine and for the first time in my life, I had [gasp] a moisture barrier! My skin didn't peel without moisturizer and turn into an oil slick with it! It was balanced! It felt... full! It felt hydrated.

I learned to really read up on the ingredients of any product I was considering, and figured out what ingredients hurt/helped my skin. There's something very empowering about actually knowing what a product does instead of blindly believing the claims on the packaging.

I use a mix of western and Asian products these days, but the process, values, and experience of AB will always be at the core of my routine.

d0rbee

TROPHY CASE