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I think The Looker might appeal both to those who loved The Witness and those who didn’t. Several laugh-out-loud moments, some fun puzzles of its own - a wonderfully silly send-up,…

Perhaps a more direct relation: most of those preexisting games were made in puzzlescript, which (per the article) was also made by the author of Stephen’s Sausage Roll.

Correct… they “cheated” a little to make the props for the movie. There are other designs for single-sheet unicorn, winged unicorn, and Pegasus — particularly the ones from John Mo…

The impression I get from the article is not that the compiled code of each implementation produces the same object code, but that when the implementations are run with the same in…

I hiked up there once… There was a reservoir with a trail around it and, to my surprise, a fenced-off area full of goats. Apparently they were part of a vegetation control program …

It only looks for a single leading “e” or “i”, not any number. I’m guessing those tweaks were added to capture specific proper nouns that weren’t captured by simpler “leading capit…

The unlikeliness of the wooden spaceship was one of my favorite parts of the sci-fi mystery/adventure game “The Outer Wilds”. (An indie gem…highly recommended, if you like puzzles …

I wasn’t sure what the article meant by “no screws or glue”, when the photograph appears to have visible screws. But closer images show that these are apparently some sort of rivet…

Heh… that exact situation came up here a few years ago, when someone posted their software implementation of the puzzle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540014

My understanding of the article is that some companies added sesame to their products and ingredients label, while others may have changed their label to say the product “may conta…

My favorite was toward the end of the Evangelion series, where they generated flashback footage by shooting the backs of earlier cels.

I recall Amazon’s Lord of the Rings title sequence [1] received some criticism for looking fake, even though they filmed it practically [2]. I’d guess it was due to folks assuming …

There’s a wonderful little carpentry museum in Kobe, highly recommended: https://www.dougukan.jp/exhibition?lang=en It focuses a lot on the evolution of precise woodworking tools, …

Wouldn’t be surprised if that inspired Altitude, a more recent multiplayer 2d dogfighting game, free on Steam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_(video_game)

Looks like their “Baldur’s Gate” and “Fallout” games are practically identical, with similar overworld map and battle systems? https://storyteller-blog.com/2024/03/22/i-made-a-bald…

As Monty Hall pointed out in interviews, he was not obligated to offer the opportunity to switch and sometimes did not. So in this case knowledge of the actual show may have contri…

I think Ubisoft’s intent was more to make customers comfortable with the idea of paying for short-term or ongoing access to content. Their shutdown of online services and DLC for s…

There are actually 10,100 equally likely situations: 101 choices of N x 100 choices of ball. When you completely discount the N=0 case, it’s because all choices of ball are green. …

Yes, it’s a mistake to take the expected value before the ball is drawn, because the drawn ball adds information, disproportionately changing the expected value. Consider an altern…

I thought Southwest uses “open” seating, where passengers aren’t assigned a seat, but instead just take any unoccupied seat? If so, a perk of being earlier in the boarding order wo…

So, it seems that the intent of the code is to add two parallel, invisible kill beams to augment the main beam. The nature of the bugs are such that the added beams are positioned …

To be fair, bug #1 was that the normalization call had no effect, so the fact that it’s also being done in the wrong sequence doesn’t actually have a further effect on gameplay.

Per the article, probably just Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

I suspect that someone using a public usb-a charging port isn’t expecting fast charging, but rather counting themselves lucky that it works at all.