pre-flomps here to watch then

flooomf

\o

are you feeling like a slither, park, or fillo?

does the crown have an easy flow-y fillo?

toothpaste in filo pastry

toothpaste is so relaxing

swaroopg92.github.io/penpa-edit/?m=solve&p=1VVfb9owEH/nUyA/…

toothpaste!

this one is extra flowy

:D

bobble hopes the wait was not too long

happy flowing

wait, this ending can't possibly be right

hahahahaha, i love it. "small numbers"

did they trick you :D

i absolutely adore that

:D

looks like all small numbers to me, obviously

nothing to see here

that's a hilarious ending :p

i love how it was designed so that it couldn't be two nines, it HAD to be a giant 18

there was no other way for it to work

clever as heck

swaroopg92.github.io/penpa-edit/…

the clue pattern!

ooooooh!

pretty squares :D

ooh hang on i may have just gotten the Important Email

oooooooh

yup it's the Important Email!! guess what???????? :D

job?

i finally got a job offer!!!! :D

what for?

it's a manufacturing company downtown, they sent me the initial offer a few days ago but i wanted to get the confirmation email today to be 100% sure :D

what will you do?

i'm still considering it but i'm just relieved i finally got some kind of offer

only took, like, months

no I mean what is the job to do

i would be working on their app development and backend systems, it's a bunch of C#/.NET coding

code!

they have a fulfillment app for clients and some cool networking stuff

not barista!

not barista!!

(though 'borg would be the hot barista)

i would totally have been the cute gay barista

purdy

@Sciborg awesome!

:)

@Sciborg and this is sort of a shame <nods>

so relieved. this particular job isn't like perfect or exactly what i wanted, but it's a good job and it's a really neat company

and the most important thing: it pays money

cough it pays... very nice money

awesome! :D

:D i had already celebrated a couple days ago when they first offered, today was just making 100% sure they want me and aren't going to retract it

i won't start officially until mid-May

still - great news, borgborg :)

glomp

borgborg is very relieved

can resume The Great Plan ^^

:D

also posting this because it looks cool - even though you already have a solution ;p

pretty colors! :D

and a ghost tree o.o;

look we only see small numbers

I was like... these are both 9... I must have done something wrong

oh wait.

that was a very nice puzzle actually

I like the ones with hidden fossils

giant hidden ghost pieces are always the best

it's like "oh.... oh okay, ghost piece.... wait.... waIT STOP GETTING BIGGER"

I had 4... which became 2... which still touched and then I was sad until I realised it could end now.

I think I still prefer the other solver for filomino... I miss the drag numbers :/

yeah - puzz.link is more natural and you can check your answer

oh I though borgaborg liked penpa

I can make 'em in puzz.link

i like having that "check" button to click obsessively

:p

but penpa does pretty colors

puzz.link/p?fillomino/10/10/…

Source, by Grant Fikes

ooh look at those pretty clues!

in puzz.link you also have one setting that does both, whereas in penpa you have to constantly go up and switch between Edge and Number

hehe, my dad has been texting me like all day sending me company information and badgering me to know when i'll accept

flowing?

flowing :)

there are some complications i need to think through before i just blindly accept offer, i.e. the location isn't near any good apartments so i'd have to commute. and i'm admittedly not too familiar with some of the software required and it would involve legacy codebasing which is a bit nightmarish. but the pay is solid, it's a nice company and the team and manager seems really cool. so i'm leaning heavily towards taking it.

and i probably won't get another offer this good in such a crap economy

just things to ponder, basically

Well you can but try. I think it is worthwhile trying it out. Probation is a two way thing.

yeah. if it ends up being the wrong fit, at least it'll give me more experience

the commuting and feeling underqualified are basically my sticking points

but like... i can't really afford to be picky

well - everyone is always "underqualified" for a new job - you don't have the experience of the company or what it wants or how it works.

<shrugs>

it's my imposter syndrome, lol

i'm sure i would be fine, brain has just been heavily beaten down

i got all the way to the end of the fillo and there is a Problem that cannot be solved... i must have done it wrong :(

:(

picture?

1-2-1?

....oh! i don't know why i didn't think of that

did you hit the button

the button has declared it complete

more?

(would you like more puzzles)

sure!

puzz.link Source by Grant Fikes; another "24 dice" theme

it works out that the job would start at the end of May, because that gives me time to build myself back up from unemployment-sadness and learn about their tech stack

puzzle-doing is giving me time to think

bobble is busy answering a puzzle, aaah

fillo has been completed :P

does birdy want more?

sorry crown was posting answer but got sniped ;-;

aw :(

30 seconds

thirty darn seconds

shouldn't have spent time formatting

that darn formatting

anyways

bobble wants to RP ...

bobble can't RP ...

birdy wants to RP but will research company stuff in the meantime

bobble is surprised at how much he has been answering recently

not spending all the brain-energy on puzzle construction has been fun

he is good answer crown

(also, it was slightly disturbing to realize during the afternoon that my gender identity had shifted to male, and I was still wearing the dress I put on in the morning)

gender is weird

i've kinda settled on sticking to he/they for most of this year, haven't had a major shift in a while - brain seems to like the spot it's at

I looked in the mirror and went "wait what that looks wrong why is there a guy in my nice girly dress - ohhhhhh"

"who is this man" :p

I actually haven't had a shift in a while, was hanging at some spot between female and nonbinary, so it was quite surprising to have a shift. Part of the reason why I didn't put two and two together at first.

my brain seems satisfied with being at a spot between male and nonbinary, i haven't felt feminine in forever

I really don't like thinking about my gender. I am not sure why. It makes me uncomfortable in a way I haven't felt since worrying about who I was attracted to many, many years ago.

it's possible you may be gender-agnostic or similar, Gray - i'm not entirely sure how that feels or whether that applies

oh don't get me started on attraction

it's... partly to do with my general feeling of imposter syndrome in pretty much any space

mick is easy when it comes to attraction - Cute Boys and Cute Enbies

I've only recently (sophmore-ish) managed to get past "don't I have to be attracted to guys, why aren't I attracted to guys, is something wrong with me, am I attracted to that guy" loop

>.> I believe 'borg tried to explain what attraction and love feels like somewhere here

@bobble I had a similar loop

i think we discussed it in DMs where i explained what attraction is like

specifically why Sam is a cutie sweet pea

... until university ...

@Graylocke sometimes it takes a while <3

nothing wrong with that

I didn't really want to be different, and I also felt different from the people who were openly different. So I just felt excluded. ^^;

Which is why I avoided thinking about it.

aw :(

well, we accept you, so you have us <3

also, we should probably move this to Grove....

probably :)

Only mods are ROs here

An interesting Minesweeper variant from the CMU Puzzlehunt Sp'20: puzzlehunt.club.cc.cmu.edu/puzzle/11006 (also transcribed on Penpa here: git.io/JYxgZ)

ah, that was a fun one

(looking forward to the upcoming CMU hunt?)

I just happened to notice it was happening this weekend, don't know if I'm gonna participate in it though

Also, shouldn't this room have the grid-deduction tag attached to it? It's literally in the room name