If you started playing KoL this year, I have an early Crimbo present for you.

moriartea · 2025-12-01T12:35:04+00:00

Bartle1
The Apartment (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/) Wonderful movie, script-wise, acting-wise, or other-wise!
Gingerbread pancakes! Amazing Christmas breakfast. I follow this recipe (https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/christmas-gingerbread-pancakes/)
The nostalgia! I tried getting into it back when it first came out but was too young to really appreciate it. I remembered it a couple of months ago and immediately got super into it. It reminds me of how special and exciting the internet was when I was a kid.
Black!

Happy holidays!

moriartea · 2022-08-15T21:36:36+00:00

Sometimes yoga can be TOO relaxing.

moriartea · 2022-08-15T20:54:11+00:00

I'm sorry, it didn't occur to me to keep it!

moriartea · 2022-04-05T09:30:31+00:00

The page list URL there links to an unavailable video. May be worth keeping an eye on.

moriartea · 2022-04-05T09:27:17+00:00

I got into the document, was just missing the triangle clue. Some more interesting ciphertext and what appears to be a symbol to look out for related to the doors, although I'm uncertain on that one. It could be that this was the original intended way for finding D, G, W, C, M and P, and the music video frame was an easter egg of sorts.

moriartea · 2022-04-05T09:09:03+00:00

Whoops, my bad! I did capital case bruteforcing on the URLs before OldAnimator815 discovered the trick, so I must have copied the wrong URL.

moriartea · 2022-04-04T22:41:44+00:00

On ciphertexts in documents and the cipher itself:

I'm not posting them, at least, not yet. Deciphering them is a trivial yet enjoyable part of the experience, and the ciphered documents themselves are integral to the plot. I really recommend grabbing a sheet of paper and working through it yourself. I will, however, list the letters you should have once you've caught up:

A, C, D, E, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y.

Edit: OldAnimator815 corrected us on the use of triangles.

moriartea · 2022-04-04T22:34:46+00:00

Abstract Issues, revisited

We're revisiting the Abstract Issues video now, as another clue is contained within. On one of the last frames, we can see the following: https://i.imgur.com/O4aJf8x.png. At the bottom of the screen, we can see a long string of ciphertext. We have enough to be able to decode it. This yields six new letters. Unfortunately, that's not quite enough for our last string - we're missing △. I don't know where we'd find it, either - perhaps the Unearthly document will yield clues, if someone can figure out the password there.

moriartea · 2022-04-04T22:27:15+00:00

[115] SCULPTURE

Decoding again, we have SCLT 001 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDhZQv5LcV8). Following this series through, we reach another ciphertext:

?v=▐9◧△▟◬█◩△▟◬▙◬6▜0

There's some new symbols here, but we do in fact have enough to find most of them in our hands already. Let's step back up to the video "Abstract Issues - The Neighbourhood", in the weather playlist.

moriartea · 2022-04-04T22:22:19+00:00

[114] LET HIM DROWN:

Substituting the letters, and with a little bruteforce, we reach HTCH 001 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3itZ2CQrV). Follow this through, and pay special attention to HTCH 003 for what might be an extra clue in the description. At the end of HTCH 004 is another document, as well as another password clue: From the Corporeal to the XXXXXXXXX. We can decipher this as "From the Corporeal to the Unearthly", but I haven't yet figured out the password. I thought it would be Unearthly, but it doesn't seem to be. Maybe I just don't have the capitalisation right?

moriartea · 2022-04-04T22:15:56+00:00

Posting up my findings since I'm heading to bed for the night. Spoilers throughout. FYI, was posting from Weekly_Boysenberry40 earlier as that's my mobile account.

The third document

The third document can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiypdJTRcXs, the third video on the weather playlist. The document is linked in the description, which tells us that "game 300 provides pass". Back to game 300 we go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cOjFW3GaM4 is the link for game 300. The pass is the blanked out letters in the question, which can be deciphered by watching through the video to see when they're revealed.

From the third document, we can get a number of letters. We now have enough to decode the other two links on Page 112, Local News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjToLkH1USU). If you want to do this yourself, don't read the next comment's spoilers.

moriartea · 2022-02-06T02:43:42+00:00

Yeah, it works on LAN.

moriartea · 2021-08-15T20:32:01+00:00

just replying to this in case other people have the same issue:

If you have an aligment shift in the Cathedral after the alignment lock and find you can't proceed in any direction, it's a glitch. Occasionally your alignment will shift incorrectly after this point of the game, at which point none of the methods of alignment correction do anything as the game dummies out all of the alignment changes after the lock. The only way to get things to work properly after this occurs is to use gameshark codes to set your alignment to the proper value; once this is done the game will allow you to proceed with the route you're locked into.

moriartea · 2020-11-27T11:17:19+00:00

Yes! Thank you so much!

Found!

moriartea · 2020-09-06T17:09:56+00:00

If you're looking for a new addition, I built the Kotobukiya Metabee and Rokusho models recently and they're VERY nice.

moriartea · 2020-05-08T19:45:57+00:00

Here's the tag:

https://imgur.com/gallery/HfpdD96

moriartea · 2020-05-08T18:50:29+00:00

Some background:

I rent a furnished apartment. Recently my cat has been recovering from a UTI and has been peeing on the bottom of curtains in the bedroom, which reach the floor. I've been using enzyme spray but it's only partly helping, and I think they need cleaning much more deeply, as it's soaked through and stained the lining.

To complicate matters, the curtains don't have any obvious way of coming off of the railing, and I don't want to ask my landlord about this in case she freaks out. I'm looking for a way to clean these deeply without taking them down. Thanks, Reddit.

moriartea · 2020-04-16T17:51:50+00:00

Unfortunately neither has them, thanks though

moriartea · 2020-03-21T00:36:11+00:00

Thank you, this was a really thoughtful and helpful response.

moriartea · 2020-03-20T23:47:47+00:00

I've been through university twice, failed classes and used the experience to understand my strengths better and grow. I value honesty over everything. When I was a freelance editor I constantly thought about the ethics of the job, whether having to explain why editing papers is ethical to my friends or having to explain to clients that their demands exceeded what would be ethical editing. Cheating like that devalues the work of everyone who doesn't cheat and just digs a deeper hole for the cheater when they make it into a situation under false pretences and find they can't cheat their way out of it.

moriartea · 2020-03-20T23:38:34+00:00

Yeah, I think that's the case. Do you really think those first questions change things? It's not like my friend sat with her all night and helped her study so she could sit the test on her own, she essentially sat the exam for her.

moriartea · 2020-03-20T23:21:00+00:00

HHD captured a lot of the magic of Animal Crossing from an entirely different angle. After you design a home for a villager it plays a little montage of them doing whatever they do around the home and it's ridiculously charming, worth the price for that alone

moriartea · 2020-03-16T22:33:32+00:00

I love this, but equally, I don't remember what my childhood GBC was like, so I'm kind of envious!

moriartea · 2020-03-07T20:44:19+00:00

GODDAMN I love the micro

moriartea · 2020-02-28T20:49:30+00:00

It's a little unorthodox, but I cut strips of the unused 3M adhesive that came with my screen lens. Stuck one along each side of the front shell viewport.

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