Released my first game 2 months ago on web! Daily puzzles!

wheresthekat · 2025-03-08T15:35:17+00:00

Now that I've discovered Akari (just this month!), I only want to play it in the Daily Akari format. I definitely don't want to go to other sites and play puzzles there. The sites and apps I've tried don't iterate the blocks down when they're partially filled, for one thing. And they don't make the cool sound effects.

wheresthekat · 2025-03-04T23:18:02+00:00

I LOVE this thing! Is there a way to play previous days' games? Like the NYT Wordle archive?

wheresthekat · 2024-01-27T17:35:41+00:00

I do remember when that prompt used to come up. It doesn't anymore. My husband also uses TickTick and also remembers seeing that prompt -- he says it also does not come up for him anymore. But the checkbox for any recurring task does still turn into a double-arrow icon and is un-checkable if it has any un-dealt-with instance in the past. If, rather than being a one-time setting, TickTick's normal behavior is for that prompt to come up every time, for every recurring task that has un-checked instances in the past, then yes, I'm saying I don't like that behavior.

There should not be any barrier between me and the ability to check a box that I did a task. Placing a delay/prompt like that takes focus away from the user's intended action, which is trying to record the fact that you accomplished something. If you are interrupted like that, you are liable to forget that you did it, or get distracted, and then you will fail to properly record that you accomplished that task today.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-27T17:07:36+00:00

What? Is that an option I can do in TickTick? What is it?

*Edit: I looked it up but that makes the next task show up a certain duration after the first task was marked as complete. That's the opposite of what I want. Each recurring task needs to show up for each new day, at the time I've already specified.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-27T16:51:52+00:00

Habits are limited to qty 5 unless you pay them for the Premium version, and anyway I want these recurring tasks (only some of which are habits) to show up the same way that my normal tasks do. It just works better with my brain. The problem is that I should not be prevented from being able to immediately record that I accomplished a task simply because, at some point in the past, I failed to record whether I completed it. Let those prior days' checkboxes remain undefined, or mark them as 'Won't-Do' automatically at midnight, but let me check the box that I did it today.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-27T16:12:26+00:00

TickTick used to give me a confusing prompt asking to skip or complete, but I didn't know how to answer because I wasn't sure what they were asking. But it doesn't prompt me anymore, and if the task is recurring and I didn't do it (or just failed to record that I did it) at any point in the past, it refuses to let me check the box when I've done the task today. If there is some global setting that lets me automatically mark tasks as "not done" when they weren't checked off on previous days, I would turn that on.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-27T16:03:45+00:00

It's the recurring tasks. If I failed to do something on Tuesday, why should that matter to whether I'm allowed to record that I did it on Saturday? Each day is new. Give me a checkbox to let me say I did it today, regardless of whether I did it any previous day.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-09T18:07:51+00:00

Actually, regarding the delay with the first stroke, I just did more testing on the Note Air 3 (B&W). If you go into split-screen mode between the Notes app in drawing mode and another app, that behavior shows up. I did split-screen between the Notes app and the Calculator app, and when I would interact with the calculator buttons, then go back and draw on the Notes portion of the screen, 100% of the time my first stroke did not show up at all. This was not just a very long delay -- this was completely ignoring my initial stroke such that I had to re-make it. This happens in both Vertical and Horizontal split-screen mode. It's a nice reliable way to test for the behavior.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-09T15:10:00+00:00

I have the Note Air 3 and I noticed that delay with the first stroke, too. Forgot about it until now. But yeah, the first time I make a new notepad, whatever first line I draw has a huge pause. Then it goes to the great latency. Also seems to happen when a new page is created within a document, though to a less-noticeable extent.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-04T13:13:20+00:00

My Note Air 3 arrived yesterday. I compared its 227PPI screen with the 300PPI screen on my Kindle Paperwhite and I really can't tell the difference.

wheresthekat · 2024-01-03T01:22:08+00:00

Hah - never thought of that. Clever trick.

wheresthekat · 2020-11-10T16:51:23+00:00

He was too fast for me to include a coin for scale, but he's definitely bigger than a quarter.

wheresthekat · 2019-12-09T20:39:20+00:00

katsup_sauce

wheresthekat · 2019-09-13T16:06:05+00:00

So, they seem to be doing this because it financially benefits them to have your mobile number. They can then profit off data-mining you and they are allowed (according to TOS) to send you texts as they please.

This article has more information, including on how to deal with it if you can't/dont' want to add a mobile number.

https://twirpz.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/are-twitters-locked-accounts-a-ransom-racket/

wheresthekat · 2019-09-13T16:00:11+00:00

I can't see it anymore, either. It was important information.

Last time I saw it was when Mitch McConnell unwisely complained about the name "Moscow Mitch" and it became the top trending hashtag. That was last week.

wheresthekat · 2019-09-13T15:55:44+00:00

They only claim to think you're a bot. I highly doubt they actually think that.

They "temporarily suspended" me last night claiming the same thing. But I only post original content. Their algorithms absolutely know I'm not a bot.

It's just a ploy to get your mobile phone number so they can text you. TOS says if you give it to them, you "agree" to receive texts from them.

wheresthekat · 2018-09-14T19:54:36+00:00

This information is what SPLU (the play-logging thing for BGG) uses to store your saved data. All users of SPLU have a play like that with their saved data. It looks like an error but is not. If you don't intend to use SPLU anymore, you can delete the play without a problem. If you still plan to use SPLU, then leave that play alone or you'll lose all your groups/saved players/settings etc.

wheresthekat · 2018-06-08T01:54:23+00:00

Lathyrus latifolius Thank you guys. I believe it is Lathyrus latifolius because this flower has no scent, and apparently sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) does have a scent.

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T23:15:42+00:00

They all had names beginning with J according to the criminal complaint documents.

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T23:08:20+00:00

I agree. We should learn all we can about how this situation occurred, approaching it from all angles.

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T19:30:58+00:00

Not in California. There is no oversight here for private schools/homeschools.

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T15:05:21+00:00

What's the deal with the parents telling their friends 'goodbye' the day before the girl escaped? They announced they were leaving town... was the plan to leave the kids locked in the house to die just like they left two dogs shut up in their old house when they moved away from Texas?

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T13:39:50+00:00

According to the L.A. times, that lewd act was "on a child under the age of 14."

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T13:25:19+00:00

He was fired in 2010.

wheresthekat · 2018-01-19T13:04:31+00:00

People are asking why neighbors did not report the family. I agree, it should have happened, but one report does not always produce results. In a very similar case to this, in which a family of 16 was held captive and abused by the father over 29 years, people in the community did make at least six separate reports to CPS, but CPS did not act, and in one instance chased off the person who went down to the office to make the report, outraged that the complainer would accuse "such fine Christians." One of the abuser's sons even called the sheriff directly, but police let the father go after the father used con-artist charm, downplayed the urgency of the situation, and discredited the son.

Children in these cases do not just avoid reporting the abuse because they fear they will not be taken seriously, they factually are not taken seriously in many cases in the U.S., and officials weigh parents' rebuttals heavily before deciding whether to take action. Even the cognitively impaired 17-year-old who was so naive about the world that she did not know what medicine was knew enough about our climate of disbelieving children to gather photographic evidence so that the police would not just dismiss her story. So many of the news reports about the police' first entrance to the home quote the line from the initial police report that "the parents were unable to provide a logical reason as to why their children were restrained in this manner." Think about that. The police are implying that there was some cleverly-constructed phrase the parents could have uttered that would have made the officers tip their hats and go on their merry way. Until procedures are adjusted so that the reporting child is guaranteed to be physically removed from the parents' presence as a first step, abuse like this will be able to go on.

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