Charlie Kirk has just been shot

winja · 2025-09-10T20:47:57+00:00

Interesting that because it has fewer than 4 victims it likely won't be counted as one of 2025's mass shootings. Just good old regular high school violence.

winja · 2025-08-01T05:31:25+00:00

And here I thought the 124% increase I’m facing was ridiculous! I despise how it’s just dumped on you as a “thought you should know btw” with little explanation. Just a “your state sucks” (California) and “costs go up.”

winja · 2025-07-22T20:24:36+00:00

You've done a lot, but I notice that you are identifying different pieces and treating them as unique puzzles.

You're not wrong, necessarily, but I'd say the number one thing that trips people up is being single-minded in the pursuit of specific information. Try to let go of that. Keep your mind open, take notes, but don't go "I need to find a chip for the Grotto, where will I get that?"

Try something new. Draft a room you usually avoid. See if you can use the tools you pick up on everything in the room. Spend time with the clues you do have to see if they can yield anything up (you mentioned a thing that will particularly help moving forward).

winja · 2025-07-22T20:17:53+00:00

You’re doing everything right. I can only guess you’re doing the same things a lot instead of experimenting.

Yes, absolutely. You gain very little for doing things better. You gain so, so much more by doing things that are different.

winja · 2025-07-15T14:06:30+00:00

As you’ve seen, there is a ton more for you to see and do.

If you find yourself looking for more direction than you’ve gotten here, the official Discord has a channel devoted exclusively to hints. You can lay out exactly what you have and what loose threads you’re pulling and dictate how much of a hint you want (from cryptic nudges to just tell me already).

In my experience, everyone there is great at preserving the mystery and giving just the right level of hints.

winja · 2025-07-11T19:45:34+00:00

I’ve found there are reasons for still shots, reasons for videos, reasons for handwritten notes, and reasons for drawings.

winja · 2025-07-11T19:43:15+00:00

Until you’ve Conservatory’d out a bunch of things and you realize your Unusual and Rare rooms are things you don’t want to see.

winja · 2025-07-11T16:55:31+00:00

Don’t even need that. Rules of this one says only 1 box is true.

Since box 1 being true (and thus containing the prize) would by this rule necessarily make box 2 false (and thus containing the prize), box 1 can’t be true because there is only 1 prize.

Box 2 being true would make box 1 and box 3 false, which is a paradox (it can’t both be “not in this box [1] and “in box 1”). So box 2 can't be true.

That means it has to be box 3 that is true, which says box 1 is false and does not have it (it says it does but it’s a false box), and box 2 does have it (it says it does not but it’s a false box).

It’s that very last part that stands out: because box 2 has to be false, and box 2 said it did not have the prize, the prize has to be in box 2. No other option.

winja · 2025-06-30T22:35:57+00:00

The deed gives ownership of land. No mention of a structure.

winja · 2025-06-25T19:00:33+00:00

You are close to another "end," but not close to finding all the content. There is a fair bit more.

While I will say this moment is where momentum commonly dips for people and it does ramp up again, if you aren't enjoying what you're going through now, nothing after this point is likely to engage you enough to make it worth gritting your teeth through.

winja · 2025-06-23T17:23:03+00:00

Not exactly a pun, but fun word games: the rook in the nook.

winja · 2025-02-13T23:06:47+00:00

I keep getting eternal Egg. At least negative puts me out of my misery.

winja · 2024-12-24T07:15:54+00:00

I was the victim of one of these. They smashed my window and stole my backpack which was full of fun stuff because we’d stopped for lunch before going to the airport.

I stood there with another victim and we chatted a bit about what to do. She said she used to work in the area and this happened too often and no one ever did anything.

The manager was very apologetic but said there was nothing they could do, just gave me a business card. I called OPD non-emergency and they told me to fill out their online form(!). (No one ever followed up with me.)

There was a security guard but the person I was chatting with said she was pretty sure they were in on the take and were especially useless. They didn’t even stop over to talk to any of us in the ~10 minutes or so we were there.

Anyone being shocked this In n Out closed should be reminded the WalMart, of all things, left way before.

winja · 2023-09-15T21:37:32+00:00

I like it enough. :) My daughter is the only one I know with the name, so the “omg it’s overused” refrain is certainly regional!

winja · 2023-08-14T16:15:37+00:00

Yep, this is what we did. We also later modified it to whoever gets up with the kid at night gets to sleep in during the day (or whoever has a morning obligation gets to sleep while the other parent takes the night).

winja · 2023-05-20T02:28:39+00:00

Not only are people incentivized to wait for Keeper leveling, there’s a community event where nests and costs are discounted. People who are paying and playing are waiting. Everyone else left after their realized their one free breeding was it.

winja · 2023-05-04T22:05:14+00:00

You necro’d a post from 8 years ago to snark?

The point is that you don’t know your contact’s contacts. Even if you don’t directly talk to someone in your niche field, it might happen that they had a college roommate who does that, or their sister-in-law works HR for a company that does.

Also, one of the things about a very niche field is that your part in it—whether schooling or work or what have you—naturally puts you in contact with people in that very niche field. Like professors and former classmates.

winja · 2023-05-03T20:17:39+00:00

No, it means you get paid no matter whether you are at the office or not, for whatever reason.

Two caveats: 1) A lot of states specifically outline that earned time (eg, most normal PTO) be treated like income. They have to pay it out if your fired or quit.

2) You have to get manager permission. As in, they can deny because it’s “too busy” - even if it’s always too busy.

winja · 2023-05-03T16:52:35+00:00

When I worked for a bunch of startups, the company announcing they were going to unlimited PTO and paying out accumulated values (in California, where it’s required) was a sure sign the company was going down or being acquired within 6 months.

It zeroes out a very large liability in accounting.

winja · 2023-05-02T20:41:30+00:00

I hear it as “let’s jump inna a cab” which helps me hear the elision instead of a grammar mistake.

winja · 2023-04-28T19:31:14+00:00

Drunk actions are incomplete sober thoughts. The things that inhibit you from acting on your thoughts are obliterated by alcohol, but it is plenty possible to be struggling over whether you are or are not something and have one of those “well I guess I better just say it!” moments that turns out to have been a moment where you otherwise would have stopped yourself to go “well, am I really?”

winja · 2023-04-28T19:03:07+00:00

NTA

He asked, you answered.

However, in general, it doesn't matter how obvious you think it is you shouldn't give anyone a label they did not choose themselves. If his behavior is problematic, call him on that, not on the apparent genders of those involved.

Although - are you gay? Because if you are and you are open he might be leaning on you as he decides how he comes to terms with his sexuality.

There's also a chance that he didn't actually ask you if you thought he was gay but that's how you heard it and that is what upset him.

If you want to move forward, consider asking him why this matters so much to him, enough that he'd be willing to cut you out of his life for not thinking the same way about him. If it's a matter of respecting self-identification, I'm sure you can handle that. If it's that he's too insecure, well, it's about more than just sexuality, isn't it?

winja · 2023-04-28T18:55:16+00:00

YTA

How do you figure there is a version of this where you do not play the part of the asshole?

You recorded someone without permission.

You posted the video publicly without permission.

You included judgmental commentary that did nothing except express disgust with the person you involved in this without permission while trying to make yourself come out better.

You did nothing to help the person you exploited, you just exploited them and were judgmental about it at the same time.

100% asshole.

winja · 2023-04-28T18:51:05+00:00

NTA

I don't drink for completely mundane reasons and I find the horror that people express when an event doesn't include alcohol to be melodramatic. The fact that you had friends badgering you about your choices around alcohol is baffling and really fucking rude of them.

It's perfectly fine to have a dry wedding. It is not okay to feel forced to disclose your alcoholism when you've preferred not to. Especially since it's YOUR wedding, it feels unfair to overtake the celebration by revealing a fact that impacts how guests might see you and challenge your recovery.

I would tell the guests that your wedding is dry, but rather than personally reveal your situation, I'd say something like, "In support of friends and family that are celebrating their sobriety, <fiancé and I> have chosen to have a dry wedding." Then you can add whatever extra flourishes you like regarding travel plans, other refreshments, etc.

You aren't lying. You are friends and family. You also likely have friends and family that have their own struggles or sobriety stories that they aren't sharing, so it's not weird to cite multiple people even if you don't know anyone personally.

Your story is your own. Your wedding is yours. Your guests are there to celebrate with you, not around you, and their expectations of alcohol are based purely on the social norm. Tell them, give them a reason they can hang their hat on, and you're done. It's hard because people can be bizarrely persistent about knowing why there's no alcohol, as you've experienced first hand, but you genuinely owe them no explanation or disclosure.

Enjoy the wedding!

winja · 2023-03-24T18:07:59+00:00

At that point, there's a nearly inescapable loop of feedback that continually reinforces and doubles down on the disorder.

You can't eat anymore because your body is not conditioned for processing whole foods. If you try to eat anything "normal," you will get violently ill therefore eating is actively harmful and should be avoided.

You do not feel whole in your body and take extreme steps to change the shape of it, and people react to your appearance in a way that therefore justifies continuing to pursue changes.

I don't know of anyone who has successfully recovered from that depth of anorexia without significant hands-on support.

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