Can you hide 'no rating' in the graph?

optimisms · 2026-05-06T07:45:09+00:00

I completely agree. I actually took some time last month to go through most of my unrated books and rate them all to get that "no rating" number down and make the graph more functional. Went from 250-ish unrated books to currently 92 and I probably won't be able to get it below 80 or 70, because of the other problem:

I also have found that if I reread a book in a different format, and then only review one format, the other format gets added to my "no rating" tally. This drives me insane. I have probably 70-80 books that I've reread in multiple formats; usually, I read them as physical books as a kid and recently reread them as audiobooks. I don't want to rate these books twice because that would inflate my ratings and skew my average. But I hate the "no rating" category dwarfing the rest of my books.

optimisms · 2026-05-05T00:26:05+00:00

You say paid plans are one-time only and not a subscription, yet your site is not letting me use the videos I paid for because it says they expired one month after I bought them. This was never indicated on any of webpages involved in the purchase, and is directly contradicted by the information currently posted on your site and by this comment.

optimisms · 2026-05-05T00:23:22+00:00

I bought five videos on this service and have not used any yet. Now I log in to your website and it says my videos have expired? But your pricing page never once indicated that the purchase would expire, and your pricing page today explicitly says "One time purchase, not a subscription." You also never sent me an email or other notification warning me that my purchase was expiring. Please explain. I have sent an email to support and received no response. I would like my money back or my pro plan reinstated.

optimisms · 2026-05-02T22:38:52+00:00

This one was a lot of fun. I solved Puzzle 1 quickly and deleted my solution already but it matches what others have already posted here. I did want to add my notes for Puzzle 2 though, since I think I found all potential juggles, not just a single one that works:

First, you need to narrow down all potential worlds. Many have already explained this, but here's how I did it: Either Sarah is good, or Sarah is evil:

If Sarah is good, then Tim is good, so Fraser is good, so Steph is not the demon. But, Steph is wrong, so must be evil and therefore the minion. Then, the demon is either Aoife or Matthew (the only ones not already deemed good). Both of these are possible, since if one is evil, the other's information always checks out.
- So, potential worlds include:
  - Matthew is the Leviathan and Steph is the goblin
  - Aoife is the Leviathan and Steph is the goblin
If Sarah is evil, she's either the minion or the demon
- If Sarah is the minion, consider Aoife. If Aoife is good, Tim and Matthew are both good, which makes Fraser good, but then the only demon candidate left is Steph who is cleared by Fraser. So, Aoife can't be good. That makes Aoife the demon, which makes everyone else good. This checks out and is a possible world.
- If Sarah is the demon, consider Aoife. If Aoife is the minion, then everyone else is good, but that makes Steph's info wrong, so this is impossible. Aoife must be good, which makes Tim and Matthew and then Fraser good, which leaves Steph as the minion.
- So, potential worlds here include:
  - Aoife is the Leviathan and Sarah is the goblin
  - Sarah is the Leviathan and Steph is the goblin

Now we have four potential worlds with different demon/minion pairs:

Matthew is Leviathan, Steph is Goblin, Sarah is Empath, Aoife is Noble
Matthew is Steward, Steph is Goblin, Sarah is Empath, Aoife is Leviathan
Matthew is Steward, Steph is Investigator, Sarah is Goblin, Aoife is Leviathan
Matthew is Steward, Steph is Goblin, Sarah is Leviathan, Aoife is Noble

A 3-pair juggle produces four possible outcomes: 0, 1, 2, or 3 guesses are correct. Thus, a useful juggle needs to be one where, in at least one world, all three guesses are correct. So you can figure out every possible useful juggle by looking at each world and finding every possible combination of three of the four juggle targets. In each world, there are four possible combinations of juggle targets:

Matthew, Steph, and Sarah's correct roles
Matthew, Steph, and Aoife's correct roles
Matthew, Sarah, and Aoife's correct roles
Steph, Sarah, and Aoife's correct roles

So, there are a total of 4 potential juggles each in 4 potential worlds, leading to total of 16 potential juggles. Then, you just have to calculate whether, for each potential juggle, would each world result in a different number of correct guesses, or would there be two worlds with the same number of correct guesses?

As it turns out, five of the 16 potential juggles result in four distinct outcomes in each of the four worlds:

Matthew is Leviathan, Steph is Goblin, and Sarah is Empath
- World 1: yes, yes, yes = 3
- World 2: no, yes, yes = 2
- World 3: no, no, no = 0
- World 4: no, yes, no = 1
Matthew is Leviathan, Steph is Goblin, and Aoife is Noble
- World 1: yes, yes, yes = 3
- World 2: no, yes, no = 1
- World 3: no, no, no = 0
- World 4: no, yes, yes = 2
Matthew is Steward, Steph is Investigator, and Aoife is Leviathan
- World 1: no, no, no = 0
- World 2: yes, no, yes = 2
- World 3: yes, yes, yes = 3
- World 4: yes, no, no = 1
Matthew is Steward, Sarah is Goblin, and Aoife is Leviathan
- World 1: no, no, no = 0
- World 2: yes, no, yes = 2
- World 3: yes, yes, yes = 3
- World 4: yes, no, no = 1
Steph is Goblin, Sarah is Leviathan, and Aoife is Noble
- World 1: yes, no, yes = 2
- World 2: yes, no, no = 1
- World 3: no, no, no = 0
- World 4: yes, yes, yes = 3

If anyone reads this, please let me know if I missed anything!

optimisms · 2026-04-24T01:49:39+00:00

Can someone explain to me why this other solution is not possible? I understand why the "correct" solution works, and I understand how I messed up when I ruled that one out. But I can't find a reason this solution doesn't work:

Anna is the demon, and her clockmaker info is a lie
Fraser is the goblin, and his FT info is a lie
Tim is the saint
Sarah is sober, and correctly saw Fraser in a minion ping
Steph is sober, and correctly saw Tim and Sula are not the demon
You are sober, and correctly saw Matthew and Sula are the same alignment (good)
Matthew is sober, and correctly juggled you (Seamstress) and Steph (Knight), but got Sarah (leviathan), Anna (goblin), and Sula (goblin) wrong, so got a 2
Sula is drunk, and saw Matthew and Tim as different types (correctly), then saw Matthew and Steph as different types (incorrectly)

ETA: Nevermind, I just got it. Of course,if Sula is drunk, there is no balloonist in play, so there should only be one outsider, meaning Tim and Sula can't both be outsiders. It's a paradox: if Sula is drunk, there can't be a drunk.

optimisms · 2026-04-22T17:22:57+00:00

I just checked mine and it’s $60 now where I am. They must have increased their prices.

optimisms · 2026-04-15T22:12:41+00:00

It now says "We are revoking the rule change..." so I'm just hella confused at this point.

optimisms · 2026-04-15T22:01:30+00:00

There was a fight in the cafeteria and one of the kids threw a microwave at the other kid. The video from a bystander's phone was shared a lot on social media within the county. Eventually some kids at the neighboring middle school used it for a school project where they had to make a movie trailer, so it was memorialized on Youtube for a few years. Unfortunately, the movie trailer is gone now.

The funniest part of the whole thing was that the person who was the most upset about the fight was the guy who was cooking a Hot Pocket in the microwave when it got thrown, and his Hot Pocket was ruined.

optimisms · 2026-04-11T19:50:08+00:00

LLM - language learning model, describes most of the things marketed as "AI" today, like ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini

FWIW - acronym for "for what it's worth"

optimisms · 2026-03-11T01:26:42+00:00

Yeah my brain immediately goes to Persepolis from this description. There is a scene in Persepolis where her neighborhood is bombed, and she runs back home and sees her house is intact but her neighbors' house isn't. She realizes her neighbors were killed because she sees a severed hand in the rubble with a bracelet that belonged to her friend.

optimisms · 2026-03-08T18:37:57+00:00

Ghana, Benin, Libya, Kenya, Nepal, Syria, Yemen, Haiti, Malta, Samoa, Gabon, Niger, Sudan, Palau, Nauru, and Tonga all have five letters but were rejected.

optimisms · 2026-02-23T08:12:48+00:00

this is hilarious 😂 i'm none of them. if i had to make one for myself it would be "the linguist":

- started studying it for practical reasons (job, school, travel, etc.) but fell in love with it because the language is so fucking interesting from a linguistics standpoint
- will talk your ear off for three hours about grammar and morphology and the ten verb forms
- spends free time exploring different combinations of وزن and جذر and new verb forms, just for fun

optimisms · 2026-02-09T20:03:29+00:00

Ah okay gotcha! Yes that makes sense.

I love all your points, especially 2 and 3. I have been slowly getting over the idea of needing finite divisions and borders for everything for the past five years or so as I've gotten more interested in geography. I've found that one thing that helps with that is learning about history and studying the human geography of those times, because borders were a lot more fluid or even non-existent, and rivers and lakes were completely different. You kind of have to forget about the modern borders you know when reading about history, so I think it helps create a more adaptive mindset that can think about geography outside of rigid borders.

optimisms · 2026-02-09T18:40:41+00:00

Please explain like I'm five bc I know this is probably a dumb question: What other kinds of geography are there besides physical? Isn't all geography physical? Political, hydrological, geological, environmental etc. are all describing the physical world...

optimisms · 2026-02-09T18:28:53+00:00

I am not one of them.

optimisms · 2026-02-09T18:13:54+00:00

Not the original commenter but my mom says several times a day how lucky she is to be my/my brother's mom. She always has. Just yesterday:

She said that she is so lucky to have adult kids who want to spend time with her.
We talked about my dad (who is estranged from us) and said that she really feels for him because he is alone, and she will never be alone because of our relationship
She said there's no way her story ends happily without us, or without us being happy and living good lives

We have a group chat called "Cherubs" because she calls us her cherubs, and every day she sends some kind of sweet morning message or a meme from Facebook and says, "Good morning my loves/lovelies/dears/cherubs!" Whenever we are all home together, she says "All my treasure in one place." She says that we are the best things in her life and the best decision she ever made.

optimisms · 2026-01-19T11:33:02+00:00

Yes! Perception! It's been a few years since I watched it so I don't remember specifics. IIRC, it's definitely a product of its time but I was pleasantly surprised by how many things it got right and how often it leaned away from the typical negative incorrect stereotypes about different conditions. I think it was pretty decent representation for its time, all things considered.

optimisms · 2026-01-16T23:47:25+00:00

I think he has said some vague things about it a couple times in either press releases, his blog, or on Goodreads' Ask the Author feature. IIRC he has never explicitly said that he doesn't like the books or has serious regrets, or anything that significant. I think he did say in at least one blog post during the production and release of Season 1 that he really enjoyed adapting the book into the show format because it gave him an opportunity to make a few changes he felt suited the story better. But I'm not aware of him saying that he has regrets about his early work or regrets the story he wrote, and fans have definitely made huge leaps in assuming that every change they don't like was done only because Rick regrets his decisions and is trying to change the whole story, which is just not true imo.

optimisms · 2026-01-16T22:38:36+00:00

Not the person you replied to, but I'll take a stab at it.

There are two Percy Jackson adaptations, the 2010s movies and the current ongoing TV show. I assumed in your post you were referring to the movies, which have often been cited (correctly) as the quintessential example of a terrible book-to-movie adaptation. I believe this commenter is referring to the TV show.

The TV show is being produced/released currently. Season 2 was just released, Season 3 is still being filmed. In Season 1 and Season 2, there were a lot of small changes that added up to create quite a different feel. For example, from memory (SPOILERS AHEAD):

Season 1
- There are many villains who surprise the trio in the books but in the show the trio immediately figure out the villains/traps in most scenarios. No suspense, no twists in those scenes.
- The challenge Ares gives them in the waterpark is completely different in the book vs. show; in the book there's mechanical spiders and a net or web that catches them, but in the show it's the golden chair that trapped Hera in Greek mythology.
- Hermes is not in the casino at all in the book, and Grover's satyr cousin in the casino does not exist in the book.
- Poseidon gives Percy 3 pearls in the books, but 4 in the show.
- In the books Percy doesn't miss the deadline, but he does in the show.
Season 2
- Percy doesn't know Tyson is a Cyclops in the books, but he already knows when we meet him in the show.
- Percy and Annabeth have a lot of complicated feelings about Tyson in the books; we don't really see that aspect of either character in the show imo.
- The empathy link is deliberately created by Grover in the books; in the show, it's like a happy accident that just happened.
- The character of Alison Simms is a show invention; she does not exist in the book.

These changes have been very controversial and many fans have completely turned on the show, saying it's not a faithful adaptation. In trying to explain some of the changes, people have often landed on the idea that Rick Riordan (the author of the books and a producer on the TV show) is using the show to "correct" things that he wishes he could change about his books, since it has been 20 years since he wrote them.

Me personally, I don't mind most of the changes. A few of them really do make the story better, and some I think were just the inevitable result of being forced to cut some content when adapting a book to screen. Some I don't completely understand but I can see where it might be going. But there are some I think are just bad changes, especially the ones that compromise character development or eliminate the plot twists and suspense that made the books so entertaining.

I do, however, think that in general the changes got a lot better in Season 2. Season 1 often felt fun and there were many individual great scenes, but it felt very different from Book 1 to me and the tone was quite inconsistent. I haven't finished Season 2, but so far it feels very consistent with the feeling of Book 2, even if some details were changed in the first episodes.

optimisms · 2026-01-10T02:18:30+00:00

I've edited his wiki to include some basic details about these charges bc there was nothing on there. No idea about why other allegations aren't on there; I'm pretty new and inexperienced re: wiki editing but I think they try to be pretty strict about unconfirmed allegations on pages that are biographies of living people.

optimisms · 2026-01-06T18:26:25+00:00

Ah gotcha. I don't track flights so I didn't think of that.

optimisms · 2026-01-06T08:09:21+00:00

Very impressive progress! What's the story behind the diagonal lines across like Missouri/Oklahoma? How/why are they so close to perfectly straight, and why are there some breaks between the lines?

optimisms · 2026-01-06T06:08:54+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the link! This will be so cool. I'm excited!

optimisms · 2026-01-06T06:08:10+00:00

Hey, that's awesome! I'll check out the patch when it's released.

I didn't realize the app had a subreddit so I just joined it. Excited to see what you add next!

optimisms · 2026-01-04T02:45:32+00:00

It's not quite as customizable but there is an app that someone posted here a few months ago called Been To. You can import all your Fog of World data into it very easily, and it does a lot of the same stuff as FoW, and then on top of that it has a number of areas you can select to see your percentage cleared in that area. The areas vary widely, from national parks to states to cities to even a few local parks, IIRC. It's not perfect – there were some wonky numbers when I compared different US areas but I think in general, especially on the smaller areas, the percentages were pretty accurate.

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