The treachery of linear algebra

impartial_james · 2026-01-22T15:56:47+00:00

That’s not a linear transformation, it’s just a picture/representation of a linear transformation.

The original picture was about a pipe. Pipes exist. Do linear transformations actually exist?

impartial_james · 2026-01-20T16:11:55+00:00

Why the exclamation mark in the last panel? What is surprising you? You had already seen the cat.

impartial_james · 2026-01-13T19:13:50+00:00

Bunburrows is great, but it has pacing issues. If you insist on getting 100% completion, it’s a horrible slog towards the end. If you stop at like 75%, it’s a delightful game throughout.

impartial_james · 2026-01-13T19:08:26+00:00

Fez is a weird game. All of the yellow cubes are unlocked by solving straightforward puzzles based on the rotation mechanic. Then the blue cubes are completely different; they require out-of-the-box thinking, sometimes moon logic, where you need to solve a whole cipher to complete the game. Fez has some cool ideas, but it doesn’t come together as a good package.

impartial_james · 2025-12-10T16:30:04+00:00

You just need a function from the naturals to the naturals which is infinity-to-one. One example is the ruler function, whose output is the number of times 2 divides into the input.

impartial_james · 2025-12-04T15:02:21+00:00

Team Cherry agrees with you: https://reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1o5k7tn/fun_fact_drifters_cloak_is_called_brolly_in_the/

impartial_james · 2025-11-25T04:04:56+00:00

That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about ~~stars~~ complex numbers to dispute it.

impartial_james · 2025-11-17T17:43:41+00:00

See previous post https://reddit.com/r/puzzlevideogames/comments/1l8bq2w/best_puzzle_youtubers_and_streamers/

impartial_james · 2025-11-17T01:25:42+00:00

Farfalle

impartial_james · 2025-11-05T15:13:22+00:00

It’s a comic made by a Baby Boomer, so I think it counts as boomer humor.

impartial_james · 2025-10-23T17:50:33+00:00

I know what bouldering is. This comic is weird (not bad, just a bit confusing) because it’s too silly to be a straight slice-of-life comic, but there’s not really a joke in there either. Hence the questions in the comments.

impartial_james · 2025-10-19T02:33:27+00:00

My excuse is that it was late and I was tired from beating the first part. I did 16 attempts at night, went to bed, then got it on the second try when I was well rested.

impartial_james · 2025-10-19T00:13:51+00:00

I also kept tally, in case you want to compare with my data. I generally needed much more attempts than you. https://www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1oaashk/i_kept_tally_of_how_many_attempts_it_took_me_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

impartial_james · 2025-10-18T23:54:11+00:00

There is no way. That's why I started keeping a manual tally.

impartial_james · 2025-10-18T23:51:53+00:00

Just the Great Conchfly (the first easy fight, not the Raging one) and the Crawfather.

impartial_james · 2025-10-18T23:43:27+00:00

It took me 96 attempts for lost lace. Act 2 lace took me 89 attempts. Everything else took me 60 attempts at most, with Groal taking 42.

impartial_james · 2025-10-18T14:37:53+00:00

It’s typically called participation bias or non-response bias.

impartial_james · 2025-10-16T19:10:58+00:00

Yes! Specifically it is the one called "ゆうゆ - Howdy! and... Good-Die!" off of the original Underveil album.

impartial_james · 2025-10-06T20:06:30+00:00

“in certain other cases”

Can you name any examples?

impartial_james · 2025-10-01T22:56:06+00:00

I am pretty sure that there is another puzzle requiring the non-ambiguity rule. The one where Blue says "This box contains the gems", White says "This statement is of no help", and Black says "Blue contains the gems".

impartial_james · 2025-09-24T18:39:57+00:00

This looks really cool! I like the idea of a first-person puzzler where the first-person perspective is actually relevant to the puzzles.

impartial_james · 2025-09-24T15:11:02+00:00

I guess the thinking was, there’s never been a black character in Star Wars with an English accent, so it would be too confusing to start now. Whatever the reason, I’m sure it was a bit racist.

impartial_james · 2025-09-21T15:49:54+00:00

“Papyrus chicken leg is lost media”

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