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Co-founder of Puzzmo.

I make deep games that are easy to get into. Also conceptual art.

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JahimWord, to random
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@helvetica Your in-app prompt to update Knotwords gave me a text file to download and didn’t go to the App Store?

helvetica,
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@JahimWord interesting! ill look into it. sorry about that

theowatson, to books
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Currently reading HItchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to the little one and two chapters in it’s a hit. Never laughed so hard during stories. Can’t recommend it enough.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63340129-the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy

helvetica,
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@theowatson oh man i loved that show so much

skinnylatte, to random
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I truly feel that the moment I liberated myself from the ideas of ‘doing / learning things for productivity / success’, my relationship with everything changed. Like wdym I can learn typography without becoming a designer, learn to play an instrument without ever performing, and just.. be?

There’s a lot of info about ‘perfecting a craft’ but I’d bet it would help most people to just ‘dabble in a craft’

helvetica,
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@skinnylatte one of my most meaningful art classes in college was called “digital sketchbook”. we had to use all kinds of different pieces of technology to create are but we were forbidden from finishing anything.

really a meaningful experience to be forced to work that way

BoatsAndJoes, to random
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@helvetica @orta In the Puzzmo Cross|word leaderboards, what is a "plonk"?

helvetica,
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@BoatsAndJoes @orta check the instructions

helvetica, to random
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perfect example of loss aversion. our table wobbled for 8 years because we didn’t want to reduce the number of protective rubber feet by removing the remaining three

helvetica, to random
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I don't know who else out there has my very specific problem of not wanting to use google software but — fastmail finally (as of today?) supports exactly one modern calendar application (https://morgen.so).

I've been using it for like 5 hours and it is amazing to actually be able to send meeting requests, have scheduled open time, and be able to accept meeting requests without going to fastmail.com

If you also have this problem — big recommendation from me!

helvetica,
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@iomegadrive oh that may be new. when i first started using fantastical they did not and it was annoying to not be able to approve events.

Hempuli, to random
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New paper puzzle type - Forceloop: https://www.hempuli.com/blogblog/archives/2993
Rules & 3 puzzles behind the link.

helvetica,
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@Hempuli this is really nice! I feel a bit like the “allowed to cross itself" rule can be pretty brain-breaking, but maybe that's needed for really advanced puzzles! I admit i haven't solved the harder ones.

I was thinking this might be an easier to parse design:

helvetica, to random
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I dont know why it took me so long to figure this out, but Bit Generations: Coloris has finally displaced Zoop as my secret favorite vidoegame of all time.

helvetica,
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@nephariuz my only specific recommendation is that the game is very ugly on a sp101 screen and beautiful on the original gba with the washed out colors (for which it was intended). Im not sure what you can do with that information, i dunno the state of emulators these days. but on my analogue pocket i can set the screen filters to the correct style

helvetica,
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@ailepet @nephariuz lower right, lower middle, or top middle. the first photo im attaching and not the second

helvetica, to random
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I still can't really believe orta and saman built this thing.
This is a great and extremely friendly overview
https://m.webtoo.ls/@orta/112287122086028154

helvetica, to random
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We're live now with Crossword Con! Watch at twitch.tv/puzzmo - and join the Discord conversation at discord.gg/7ZSwDSUZbd to chat about the event.

helvetica, to random
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For today’s Puzzmo newsletter, @games_by_jack wrote up a great post-mortem on designing the puzzmo game remixes http://jackschlesinger.com/post/remix-postmortem

helvetica, to random
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oooooh a new vlambeer game is coming !! https://substack.com/home/post/p-143201900

helvetica, to random
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and neither of us could beat it
https://m.webtoo.ls/@orta/112195351286489399

helvetica, to random
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puzzmo.com

fstorr, to random

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Hey :) I think I found a bug with Good Sudoku (I'm using the Arcade version, if that's important).

I managed to get an impossible rectangle in the puzzle, so decided to press the Hint button to get the "Incorrectly Filled" message and undo my mistake. Instead, it highlighted a hidden single. After selecting that, I went on to complete the puzzle with no other issues.

helvetica,
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@fstorr impossible rectangles must be in exactly 2 houses.

helvetica, to random
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this feels like the first incredible iphone game in years https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slice-dice/id6449848963

helvetica, to random
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for World Meteorological Day we collaborated with The Weather Channel on a special crossword. Their CEO and Brooke clued it together!

https://www.puzzmo.com/link/crossword/weather-crossword

aperebus, to random
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@helvetica I think todays (sat 23rd) Knotwords classic is borked

helvetica,
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@aperebus we replaced the puzzle a few hours ago. if you reload the app it should fix it

grapefrukt, to unity
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i'm trying to understand which #unity plan you're supposed to be on if you're above $100K but below $200K?

helvetica,
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@grapefrukt ah looks like the same team that writes their engine writes their pricing plan

cocoaphony, to random
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This really drives home something about LLM systems. They’re very expensive to run, both to train and per-query, and hard to make cheaper. I expect them to get more expensive to run. They’re currently sold at a big loss to establish monopoly power and then raise prices dramatically. That’s the stated business plan.

If you’re building your business to rely on LLM, you need to factor in what you‘ll do when they pivot to making money, or they pull back because they can’t.
https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112116266764229145

helvetica,
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@cocoaphony @grumpygamer @theregister hmmmmmmm seems like the cutting edge models are pretty expensive to run at scale, which makes sense. I agree it seems kind of wild to build a business running on top of licensable ai — it's already too expensive.

helvetica, to random
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it feels like a critical misstep to me that humane is launching this Star Trek styled pin instead of something that is more like a Tamagotchi buddy

helvetica,
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@themizarkshow oh no doubt it doesn’t seem amazing.

i’m just kind of surprised how often tech companies tilt towards “cool” instead of “fun”

a lot of times “fun” is actually the good direction for adoption

smplfi, to random
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@helvetica Love Puzzmo, but curious why this keeps happening? Is there some aspect of Flipart scoring other than time / rotates?

helvetica,
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@smplfi nope, but those times are per piece. check instructions to see more about the scoring

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