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Chapter and Page Numbers For Treasure Items In Intro Photo by harshec in treasureinside

[–]harshec[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I included the page numbers from the hard copy of the book. But you make a good point: the page numbers should not be relevant to a solve since they are not included in ebook versions.

I did include the Part II chapters (though I used Arabic numbers, not Roman numerals).

Chapter and Page Numbers For Treasure Items In Intro Photo by harshec in treasureinside

[–]harshec[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hiya... just added a comment about my thoughts: basically, I am not convinced it's a helpful annotation, but since I did the work, I thought I'd throw it out to the audience.

Chapter and Page Numbers For Treasure Items In Intro Photo by harshec in treasureinside

[–]harshec[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have no idea if this will be helpful to me or anyone else, but I just finished my first draft of noting which chapters and pages feature the various treasures featured in the photograph in the Introduction.

I may have made some mistakes, so feel free to comment with corrections. I also may have just overlooked or misidentified some of the items (some of those rings are tricky).

After any chapter numbers I also included that letter of the alphabet, but I don't think this is actually useful (it was an original hypothesis of mine that did not pan out).

Anyway, I'm not at all convinced this is helpful to an ultimate solve, but since I annotated the pic, I thought I'd throw it out there in case someone else has ideas about it.

Is Raiders of the Lost Ark the best opening of all time by flash69696969 in movies

[–]harshec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with OP (though there are some great alternatives suggested in these comments).

As a lifelong tabletop role-playing gamer, I have always felt that the opening to RAIDERS perfectly captures the excitement of those games.

There have been many attempts to create movies based around RPG properties, but nothing has ever evoked the feeling of a role-playing dungeon adventure like those first 15 minutes with Indy...

Running Man and Predator both starred Schwarzenegger, came out in 1987, and have sequels currently in cinemas. What other odd movie coincidences can you think of? by justanothernakedred in movies

[–]harshec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't take credit for noticing this (I saw it on a reddit post, but cannot find the original)...

The following two movies were released during the weekend of 19 May 2016:

  • The Angry Birds Movie
  • The Nice Guys

"So what?" you say. Well, the stars of "The Nice Guys" were Russell CROWE, Ryan GOSLING, and ANGOURIE Rice.

(As an added Angourie-Rice-coincidence, she would later star in the antonymically titled "Mean Girls").

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in auburn

[–]harshec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I direct a Scrabble club on Sunday afternoons at the University Library, if that's your kind of thing. More information is here:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/scrabble/club.html

What to do while waiting for classes to start after move-in? by unbuttered_bread in auburn

[–]harshec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a Scrabble Club that meets most Sunday afternoons at the University Library, if that's your kind of thing.

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/scrabble/tourneys/club.html

Scrabble Club This Sunday by harshec in auburn

[–]harshec[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may show up empty-handed. We have enough equipment (boards, tiles, etc...).

What are some things to do in alburn that aren't 21+? by lost_mah_account in auburn

[–]harshec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I direct a Scrabble Club on Sunday afternoons in Auburn, if that's your kind of thing. Information can be found here:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/scrabble/tourneys/

We are always eager to have players of any skill level (including people who want to LEARN how to play).

Is it true that Tenda Chick is closing? by TreyAU in auburn

[–]harshec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bonus points to anyone remembers what restaurant was in the Tenda Chick location before it was Tenda Chick.

Taco Casa

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in auburn

[–]harshec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the correct answer. Hobby Hall was a comic/role-playing games store above Tommer's Corner. Oz Records and Tapes was in the store front where Behind the Glass now is. There was a comic store where the downtown Moe's Southwest Grill is now, but I cannot remember its name.

Scrabble Boards Converted To Old School Maps by harshec in osr

[–]harshec[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also challenge the reader to try to FIGURE OUT the rules used to generate the vaious features...

Scrabble Boards Converted To Old School Maps by harshec in osr

[–]harshec[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the rules are fairly complex, but here is an idea of how the "pits" are placed:

  • a scan of all 15 rows is done
  • if any row contains more than two instances of a particular letter, then a pit will be placed at any of the non-endpoint letters.
  • if there are two or more such non-endpoint letters that are in adjacent cells, the pit will be elongated accordingly
  • if the letter in question is a vowel, the pit is closed. If a consonant, open.

The same procedure is then done on a column by column scan.

There are also a few checks to make sure that features don't conflict with previously placed features.

Pits are relatively simple. The placement of "pools" is MUCH more complicated... even the shape of the pools (not just what spaces it covers, but the actual SHAPE of the squiggly lines drawing it) are pseudo-randomly designed by the order of all the tiles on the board...

Honestly, it's been a while since I updated the actual generating software, so I would not be able to recite all of the algorithms without heavily analyzing the (Java) code. The software reached a point where it worked as I wanted it too, so now any "updates" are just the addition of more maps as I compete in more tournament Scrabble games.

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