stmilo.bsky.social
(he/him) Professional gamedev/musician, previously Senior Music Analyst on Rocksmith+ (Ubisoft Osaka), BGM/Audio/VO for indies. Australian in Japan. (more details in pinned post!) 日本語はまあまあ. Trans rights, BLM, sovereignty was never ceded. Still masking!
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The key here, I think, is that the number of colored blocks has to remain the same even after any rearranging of hints. So unless you're considering the 'inverse' results as possible shapes, you have to create two glyphs with the same total number of pixels. Hm.
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I wonder whether there's a set of clues that, arranged in different ways, creates two different pictures. Impossible problem to solve on a general level, but maybe not on a specific one...?
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I'm beginning to suspect (but am unable to prove) that for any given nonogram of size 4x4, there's at least one way to rearrange the row hints & column hints within themselves that creates another legal nonogram. Throws a wrench in my original plan, but leads to another interesting question:
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Went back to this today at 4x4 and felt like a tremendous dumbass not making any progress until I discovered one and only one mistyped variable name, which confirms that I am a different type of dumbass (but doesn't rule out being the former either). One mystery solved at least
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Well there's a LOT of impossible arrangements but I regret to say that I need to check my code as I've found at least two permissible arrangements. barf
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yet again i have created a puzzle i am too dumb to solve myself
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LibreOffice... thank you...
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drew one up on grid paper but my scanner is too good and erased the grid... hah. (nb. there's no guarantee that the results make a picture yet, although these are theoretically 'solvable' as pure number problems)
don't hassle me about straight lines. you don't know where your ruler is at either
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all of which is to say that this is kind of endemic to puzzles and has been for a long time. it'd be cool if there were a way to do it where you were given the rows and columns but not necessarily in order, and figuring out the (hopefully single) logical order of those was part of the puzzle. IMO
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whenever i'd visit my granddad (who was very proud of his intellectual achievements) he'd tell me about the new handicap he invented for himself in sudoku, because they were all just too easy for him. eventually i realized that his forever puzzle was finding new ways to say "i'm retired you know"
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There's a hint of 'Nintendo hire this man'-ism about this, the myth of "one person can make something more 'realistic' than a whole team in Unreal Engine 4k HD"... I have a vague feeling that's the kind of consumer who responds to this kind of thing. Wants the same game, with 8x the tris everywhere.
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You're probably in the clear no matter what with the cans but yeah, would suggest turning off automatic update just in case they try funny stuff software-side with your EQ settings or whatever!
Honestly was worth the risk of burnt ear canals. So tempted...
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Didn't expect the equivalent earbuds to change my life as much as they did, this post has me jonesing...
One time Sony pushed a firmware update that set the earbud charging case to 'flambé' so, uh, just keep an eye on those updates maybe. Imagine they've fixed it by now ofc.
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No more loading between races in a GP is way more of a change than people are cognizant of, IMO.
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Used to work on something similar professionally! There's a close-to-90% chance they're using Deezer's 'Spleeter' algo for the audio separation, it's what most commercial tech uses despite being open source. That being said, everything else is incredible, enviable work...
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"What does 'self-aggrandisement' mean?" hold on let me just check my Shorter Oxford... it means 'toilet paper,' just like every other word in the book 😈
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Whatever you might have been mimicking at the time, as a kid reading Mac Hall I wouldn't have known of it. It was just 'your' style.
As a creator I think being able to trace the inspiration of what you're doing is important but your non-artist audience won't have the background to do so themselves.
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Feels like the endpoint of the '100 Greatest Games of All Time' lists in the sense that, we're just going to endlessly remake the same games each new platform until the sales dwindle, then by Playstation 9 we'll have The Hundred Games that have survived that everybody knows, and no others.
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figure most people here are on Deltarune right now so it's a good time to let your id leak out, y'know, under the radar.
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It's all just from the 100 yen store, with Blu-Tac holding the coaster to the bearing. The other side of the bearing is just resting on the turntable plate, which only travels in one direction despite the upper turntable going both ways.
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PS. don't mind the dust, or the unfinished miniatures... I was just struck by how well this turned out for $3.
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