OMIKRON THE NOMAD SOUL
BEYOND TWO SOULS
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POKEMON SOUL SILVER
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Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise
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soulcalibur lets you create souls if you believe the in game text
potentially infinite souls (limited to 50)
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Mortal Kombat 9, which starts its credits with a dedication to a QA tester who died during production, but neglects to mention he died at his desk during crunch.
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Played a little Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Turns out its really easy to install on current windows.
Its a basic RTS. Still a pretty pretty fun time.
Playing at 800x450 stretched to 1080. Feels like the correct resolution for a 1995 feel in wide screen.
Shocking how few pixels you actually need.
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Continuing the discussion from Games You Played Today: 13 Going On 30:
I’m finally playing Bad Bitch Blasters and I think it’s my Game of the Year
It’s so inspiring, what the heck
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This walkthrough has screenshots of each of the bonus riddles. This one has the solutions worked out in writing. Godspeed.
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Haven’t played too much of late but hmm let’s see…
Oh right, I guess after a year of Epic exclusivity and miserable PC sales, that MercurySteam game “Blades of Fire” is coming to Steam, so there’s a demo out for it.
It…seems neater than I think it is, sadly. You forge your own weapons, and can sort of customize them - blade shape, hilt, materials, balance between speed and power and durability, things like that. The actual forging-of is done in this sort of mini game where you try to hammer all these vertical bars into the shape of the blade - bars where you strike will go down and bars away from that area go up. Sort of a Tiger Lights Out thing going on. Closer you get the shape right, the more stars the weapon has, which affords you more chances to repair it before it finally breaks.
Combat is, as you can guess, Souls-ish, but more complicated. Your strikes are all on the face buttons (left and right slashes, overhead and underhand strikes, XB and YA accordingly), which is fine, that’s cool, but the stamina system requires you to block to restore meter, and I guess I just…constantly forget that. I want to swing big hammer and stab sword, not block…
Oh yeah you can also vary your strikes with the right trigger. That’s important along with weapon types because enemies will be impervious to certain weapons or strikes.
Also uh what else. There’s a little mopey goth twink guy with gigantic earrings who will snarkily tell you lore, he seems alright.
Oh also there’s a troll that will shit in its hands and throw it at you. That’s maybe the best thing in there. I failed to kill it because aforementioned goth guy tells me that it will petrify and heal itself, and I’m supposed to dismember it while it was dazed. It restored full health and killed me and I uninstalled it.
Might be cool for $15.
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… i just got a really high combo with hisako and the game turned into frickin lumines for a minute
… kinda like this guy here:
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did the same with shin cutie, though to a more modest extent
this feels kinda weird; i hadn’t seen this game element at all in twelve hours of play, then manage to trigger it twice in just a few minutes, with two different characters 
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Looking at these, I think Fruit Basket might be the one rudie was thinking of
The walkthrough literally concedes they just brute forced it and it is at least trickier than the basic arithmetic of most of the game’s puzzles
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@Rudie!! Has Tulpa cracked the case?
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It requires knowing or reinventing the Chinese Remainder Theorem. The math required is not inherently harder than high-school math, but it looks like in the US only STEM majors are likely to have been exposed to it, whereas in Japan it can be covered in high school or cram schools, as it sometimes shows up in university admittance tests.
So this is due to a cultural difference to some extent. That said, it’s also very rare to see videogames demand use of 10-12th grade math in general.
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It was making my head hurt without scratch paper which was enough for me to deem it a hard math puzzle and cultural differences in math education definitely explains it
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I was going to say that one took me about three minutes but I have a maths doctorate so that’s not a fair comparison (also CRT is taught at college here but it’s usually the upper echelon of AS level which you take around the time you’re 17, the dog walking question made me laugh).
I finished Romeo Is A Dead Man and having recently beat silver case/25th ward beforehand killer7 (and to a lesser extent NMH1) feel like minor miracles in comparison. Maybe I’ll write more on this later idk.
EDIT: Putting a CRT question directly above Add The Numbers Together is the kind of logical juxtaposition The Witness spent the entire game failing to enact.
DOUBLE EDIT: It’s a bit odd that it says “divided” rather than “evenly divided” as taking the question literally you could say the answer’s 207 as that satisfies the “hundreds” prompt (a clever way of saying that the answer’s the lowest possible bound rather than any of the multiples of 612 mod 1001) and you get that remainder while the rest is split up in some fashion between everyone else.
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oops i’m hyperfixated on digimon now and all i have to say is
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
or maybe not dude
OR MAYBE THE BOYS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK, BROTHER
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can’t believe Jijimon got diverticulitis of the penis
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you can reduce the search space a lot without much effort & a few logical leaps. it’s not easy, I got halfway through before needing to move from mental reckoning to writing something down
say the target is T. T mod 13 = 1. therefore T = 13n + 1. let’s find a value for n
next divisor to take into account is 11.
T mod 11 = 7, so slotting the previous in makes 13n + 1 mod 11 = 7
we can subtract one from both sides to get 13n mod 11 = 6
13 - 11 = 2, therefore 13n mod 11 = 2n mod 11. and so 2n mod 11 = 6
n must be a member of the sequence 3 + 11k: 3, 14, 25, 36, 47, 58, 69, …
similar for 7:
T mod 7 = 3 → 13n + 1 mod 7 = 3 → 13n mod 7 = 2
13 - 7 = 6 → 13n mod 7 = 6n mod 7 → 6n mod 7 = 2
n must be a member of the sequence 5 + 7j: 5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 40, 47, …
Snap! n = 47 and T = 13 * 47 + 1
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