The Bridge

Unionhawk

00:47

Can it stop being my turn for production incidents please

And can it be vacation time

Wipqozn

02:59

@Unionhawk No

So Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is actually really, really good

Not one to be I overlooked, which is what I initially did

Nzall

05:50

independent.co.uk/tech/youtube-nft-fan-own-videos-b2012134.html - YouTube launches NFTs so fans can ‘own’ videos

/facepalm

Nzall

07:19

pcgamer.com/uk/wordle-foils-naked-kidnapper - Wordle foils naked kidnapper

Memor-X

08:42

@Nzall fan's can what? that's just inviting more theft

Matt E. Эллен

10:27

firefox pooped its pants yestreday and now I've lost all my wordle stats 😥

Ronan

Somehow my stats survived the url change

Matt E. Эллен

our IT dept. did something and I lost everything including plugins.

Ronan

It's like they don't even care about wordle

Matt E. Эллен

curse them!

Ronan

Wordle 237 3/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Matt E. Эллен

10:33

don't they know how important my win streak is?

Ronan

My new target is all greys, all yellows, all greens. I don't actually know if that's a real flag but it should be

Matt E. Эллен

1
Played

100
Win %

1
Current Streak
1
Max Streak

@Ronan sounds like a tough challenge

Ronan

I think it's just entirely luck based, but it would be so satisfying

Matt E. Эллен

true

MBraedley

11:55

Wordle 237 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Was not expecting that to be a word in the short list

badp

12:06

Wordle 237 4/6*

⬛⬛⬛🟧🟧
⬛⬛⬛🟧🟧
🟦⬛⬛🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

draw of the luck tbh

luck of the draw?

that thing

Matt E. Эллен

Wordle 237 5/6

🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

badp

Daily Dordle #0018 4&6/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

@MattE.Эллен no I think this was the NYT introducing their GDPR banner bullshit

meaning they wiped existing cookies

my settings were also lost

Matt E. Эллен

:-o

curse them!

badp

anyway, here's something evil: semantle.novalis.org

after 54 guesses I'm 50 words away from the target

Ronan

12:27

@badp Oh good it's not just me doing badly

Nzall

@badp I'm 44 guesses in and I'm at best at 23%

badp

@Nzall the 1,000th closest word is at 25%; the 50th at 35%

Nzall

I'm 813 words away now, 85 guesses in

Ronan

I got 18% and then just wasted another 30 guesses making no improvement

Nzall

I'm 4 words away

I think

after 111 guesses

found it in 129 guesses

In the end, I had to ask Google for synonyms for the word that was 4 words away

I solved Semantle #13 in 129 guesses. semantle.novalis.org

Ronan

12:57

I solved Semantle #13 in 150 guesses. semantle.novalis.org

I didn't get "close" until around 100 guesses

badp

over 100 guesses in, I'm still at the 50th best word

I guess I'm coming in at the word the wrong way somehow

Nzall

@badp What's your best word right now?

badp

I solved Semantle #13 in 119 guesses. semantle.novalis.org

eyyyyyyyyyyy

SPArcheon

13:19

that thing is ... weird.

Wipqozn

Wordle 237 5/6

🟦⬛⬛⬛🟦
⬛🟦⬛🟧🟧
🟧⬛⬛🟧🟧
🟧⬛⬛🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

@MBraedley Me too. Really caught me off guard.

MBraedley

Daily Dordle #0018 4&6/7
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

SPArcheon

@Ronan look... was a 18% and it almost seemed it was something related to ... dinosaurs, flying ones. Then...... at 100+ tries now best word is 558/1000 (28%) and it seems more related to speed.... but I have multiple words at 27 related to light. I'm sorry, but it just seems a random mess of a game.

Ronan

Once you know the top 10 dinosaur isn't actually that surprising

SPArcheon

@Ronan maybe, but I can't figure a not-random strategy that does not involve tossing random words until you get lucky to find a pattern. And it doesn't feel funny.

Ronan

13:28

Yeah I'm not sure if there are any good tactics

SPArcheon

I mean, in this regard even the "Guess the pokemon" wordle clone seems better.

Ronan

None that I found at least

Matt E. Эллен

I hit 768/1000 on guess 49 but I'm getting worse and worse

SPArcheon

it... knows Pikachu...

and Kirby.

Ok, good riddance to finding any solution

furthermore...

> Each guess must be a word (of any length) or short phrase.

does not recognize any "short phrase" I tried

Matt E. Эллен

nor mine

Wipqozn

13:35

@badp is a sick, sick demented individual for sharing this with us.

SPArcheon

bah... gave up, I don't find this worth my time, sorry. I can understand wordle but this is just too random, especially played in a not-first-language

and .... I still don't see much relation to the words I was trying.

including the one that scored 588/1000

Ronan

It's using the noun meaning of the word

badp

I think it's funny tbh

you came towards the word coming from dinosaurs and speed and light

I arrived to the word coming from christmas trees and ornaments

SPArcheon

@Ronan hover here for the spoiler

Ronan

@badp Sort of similar for me

@SPArcheon An american term to do with cars

It took me a moment to work out the connection though

badp

13:45

oh yeah obviously. the car ____ is a _______ of the car status

Ronan

As long as you don't care about the score, I really like this game

badp

my top words (obviously spoilers)

(the purple word is @SPArcheon's fault obvs)

it took way too long to come but the a-ha moment was sweet

SPArcheon

You guys are just lucky that Adobe Flash is no longer a thing otherwise I would have already sent you all to suffer with the good old "Pearls before swine"

badp

I get to pick any amount of pearls to remove? for example "all of them but one"?

oh, "from any row"

eh

there's a whole theory behind this game

SPArcheon

@badp yep, but the original version had the added bonus to always start with a scheme that you couldn't win.

and... trust me, the guy had a very irritating laugh.

the second version became a fair implementation of Nim

Wipqozn

14:01

I dislike semantle as well, AND YET, I don't want to give up.

Also my first non-cold answer was 768/1000 and I still have barely any idea

Matt E. Эллен

@Ronan I find this weird because adjective is more closely related according to the game (still at 950/1000)

Ronan

@MattE.Эллен Oh it can use both meanings, I was just guessing that's why people were unable to see the connection to some words

Wipqozn

14:19

Even with all these car hints I'm clueless

I blame America

Especially @Unionhawk

Ronan

The car thing is very much a red herring

Wipqozn

Yeah well you're a fish

See a red herring is a fish

Ronan

I thought I was a dragon now

Nzall

@Wipqozn think in the direction of art

Wipqozn

@Ronan I can't keep track

Matt E. Эллен

14:23

even with all these clues I can't get better than 950

196 guesses and I'm stuck

Wipqozn

I just got 843

So that's something

140 guesses

Imagine if I wasn't so gosh darn stubborn and could actually just give up. BUT ALAS,

Matt E. Эллен

same

I dn't know if there's only one word for each number, but I also have one at 843

SPArcheon

you know.... wouldn't playing Five Nights at Freddy's in VR be less painfull?

Matt E. Эллен

I dn't think so :p

SPArcheon

or just some good old Kaizo Mario hack...

Wipqozn

14:25

@MattE.Эллен Does it start with an "S" and end with an "E"?

Matt E. Эллен

@Wipqozn yes

Wipqozn

@MattE.Эллен I think it's the same word then

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Wipqozn

OH HEY I GOT IT

I solved Semantle #13 in 143 guesses. semantle.novalis.org

Matt E. Эллен

cries

Wipqozn

14:27

RIP @GnomeSlice

I honestly didn't even think it was the word

SPArcheon

@Wipqozn great, now go and play the CDI Zelda games to recover.

Wipqozn

I was really, really confused when it was all "hey you did it"

@SPArcheon I'd rather play the new Pokemon or Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon.

@badp It took me a minute but now I get it

SPArcheon

@Wipqozn the last 143 attempts you made clearly show signs of latent masochism, so trust me, CDI Zelda is the better option :P

Ronan

You really have a problem with other people enjoying things eh?

SPArcheon

@Ronan No, just trolling. But yep, I don't make it a secret I don't get this specific game fun factor.

Wipqozn

14:31

Some of my higher scoring words

SPArcheon

Worldle isn't my thing but at least I can understand how it can be a fun challenge and has some strategy. Like I said, this one seems to random imho

Wipqozn

Also, the second guess after I won was because I was curious about the casing difference.

@badp ornament and ornaments is so much different to this.

well sort of I guess

Matt E. Эллен

I was never going to get there

SPArcheon

spoiler

@MattE.Эллен spoiler

Matt E. Эллен

@SPArcheon I wasn't even in the semantic area

SPArcheon

14:41

Back to Squirdle I am....

squirdle.fireblend.com

Matt E. Эллен

my top guesses

how is the answer more closely related to adjective than verb or noun? preposterous

Lazers 2.0

2

Q: Does time in menus count for total completion time?

Some unlocks in Metroid Dread require beating the game within a certain amount of time. Do these unlock requirements count time spent in menus? For example, if I pause the game and look at the map for two minutes, does that add two minutes to my final completion time?

metroid-dread

SPArcheon

@MattE.Эллен don't worry, as an Anime fan I would have expected spoiler to score a lot more

Matt E. Эллен

14:59

yeah, I don't understand how the relations are set up at all

SPArcheon

@MattE.Эллен that was my point when I joked about the masochism part

Matt E. Эллен

15:28

@SPArcheon apparently it's all about how co-occurent the word is with other words, nothing to do with dictionary meanings. this is where I went wrong

in English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room, 3 mins ago, by Mitch

a little more complicated. for a given word it takes all ngrams and assigns a vector of roughly 300 coords (when you consider that semantics is infinite, 300 is reasonably small)

in English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room, 1 min ago, by Mitch

and you slowly get closer to a vector for each word.

Yuuki

@MattE.Эллен so how often it's used with another word?

still confusing though, since the word in question is a very common phrase

Matt E. Эллен

@Yuuki yeah, I think so

Yuuki

i don't know what the English word for "two or more words that are used to refer to a particular thing". Like "sports car". "Phrase" doesn't sound right for some reason.

Matt E. Эллен

in English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room, 1 min ago, by Mitch

and the whole point is that you can compute 'distances' between words by doing the dot product of two vectors (the vectors for the words).

Ronan

Oh so it's not how often two words are used together, but how similar the two set of words they're used with are

Matt E. Эллен

15:34

yes

Sepia Lazers

1

Q: Is asking about getting a game ROM to run on a type of architecture off-topic?

Specifically, I own Pokemon Puzzle League, but I'd like to try and run it on my MacOS for easier screen capture. The problem is, on MacOS it doesn't run with Mupen64 emulator core. I can't find any details regarding other, potential options for this. I'd like to ask about this specific game, wh...

discussion allowed-questions

SPArcheon

@MattE.Эллен Even considering that, this specific Amazon Search should show you WHY I would expect that "S...." word to score far more (link - obvious spoiler)

Matt E. Эллен

@SPArcheon yeah

maybe.

I think human expectations and raw stats often are at loggerheads

@Yuuki phrase is fine

SPArcheon

@MattE.Эллен Oh, sure thing. Problem is that the player is human.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Unionhawk

15:48

@Unionhawk lol one of these was caused by an off-by-one error

written by someone else

>:(

SPArcheon

on unrelated news, apparently DreamMaster101 Shantae sculpt has a good enough bone structure to be animated quite easily.... That is.. I can make her jump and walk pretty easily by procedural animation....

Unionhawk

Oh good some other team is already looking at it since it's causing tons of issues

who the fuck tested this

who allowed this to go into production

SPArcheon

Getting her to animate like in the original games would be far more challenging...

I guess it is hat-off to the guy who managed to replicate Rottytops animations and attacks.

Yuuki

@Unionhawk it was meeeeeee

Feeds

Unionhawk has removed Yuuki from the list of this room's owners.

5

Yuuki

15:53

fair enough. given that i haven't done a movie night in years, i should probably have resigned RO status awhile ago anyways

RO change didn't refresh my page though.

that's weird

Unionhawk

Weird

Feeds

nothing to see here

Yuuki

that refreshed

Wipqozn

17:06

Daily Dordle #0018 6&3/7
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Wipqozn

17:17

Fordle

7

Nzall

goddamnit, I should learn to not click links on this day of the week

Wipqozn

@Nzall <3

Yuuki

21:39

ugh, every open-world game with a scavenger hunt thing needs to automatically track the stuff you've already found

Invader Skoodge

22:45

@Yuuki Let me guess, the purple wisp things?

Lazers 2.0

23:16

1

Q: Where do I go after the E.M.M.I. are deactivated?

I met a scientist named Quiet Robe in Ferenia who revealed that the Chozo attacking me is named Raven Beak and explained why the E.M.M.I were chasing Samus. Quiet Robe then proceeded to deactivate the remaining E.M.M.I. Now I'm lost and can't figure out where to go next. Where do I go after Quiet...

metroid-dread

Wipqozn

@InvaderSkoodge I'm really hoping those things don't wind up being important.

I've been grabbing them as I see them, but I haven't been hunting them.

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