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Puzzle #667
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I’m ashamed for getting purple wrong…

The memes are mostly based on the trailer and don’t have a whole lot to do with the game. Like, flint and steel is a completely normal item, but the way Jack Black says it in the movie is hilarious.

That’s why I break windows. Six more francs in the hand of the glazier. It is a good thing to break windows, it causes money to circulate, and the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it.

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Puzzle #666
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2007 was 18 years ago. I don’t know if your experience in starting a business and buying a house translates to the current economic situation. (Also… the regional/national situations of the other commenter, which they didn’t specify, making it very hard to write a relevant response.)

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Puzzle #665
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The blue was so much more obvious than the green, I was surprised that I got them the wrong way around. But looking at it, green is more “common knowledge”, it’s mostly harder because the words could connect in many different ways.

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Puzzle #664
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Lemmy does come with a standard web interface that you could apply custom css to. If that custom css then federates, other instances could show it on their end.

Might clutter the Lemmy API with stuff that less than half of users actually wants to use though. Maybe it’s better to make a separate system of fediverse user styles with a browser plugin. Then someone on Mastodon could also see it without having to extend the entire ActivityPub standard.

Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku
I didn’t really have high expectations of this, but the first episode did a good job with the animation supporting the poems, so I kept watching. Sadly, the entire series was setting up for a championship arch that didn’t actually appear. Instead, the climax/resolution of the last episodes introduced a bunch of new characters and some family drama that would have needed 5 episodes to properly explore, so it just fell flat. They introduced plenty of interesting characters for a cool qualifier event or something, I just wanted Hana to read more poems. That’s what hooked your viewers, it’s what sets you apart, so use it.

Medalist
Really solid, punchy animation. Well choreographed action. Wormies.

Blue Box
Love how it combines a sports story with a romance story without compromising on either. All likeable characters getting into believable drama and it never feels like the writing is stalling, every episode develops the characters and story in an interesting way. And outside of the romance, I love to see Taiki train hard, play good badminton and beat strong rivals.

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Puzzle #662
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Was actually a pretty good one, but I’ve failed so many in a row now that I don’t trust the puzzle any more… Could have done a reverse rainbow if I had a little more patience.

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Puzzle #661
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Ugh, I hate it.

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Puzzle #660
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Surprised so many of you got it though.

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Puzzle #659
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Easy enough, but I misjudged the colors.

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Puzzle #658
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Puzzle #657
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It’s definitely possible to store the stories in columns, but there’s also very little reason to do it. I think filepath in SQL and the stories in separate files in whatever format makes the most sense (html, txt, epub). If you ever want to search the stories for keywords, write a python script to build indexes in SQL, performs much better than doing LIKE on a maxed out varchar column.

I was thinking maybe Elastisearch, but I don’t know how much work that is to set up. For a hobby project, writing your own indexer isn’t too hard and might be more fun and easier to maintain than an industry-grade solution.

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Puzzle #656
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Antiwordle #1145
7 guesses
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Yellows are really strong, because you can just keep using them in yellow or grey spots as long as you can find words. Is it possible to reuse the same word over and over? Assuming you find a word without dead letters of course.

Glad to see I wasn’t the only one with blue-yellow blindness.

I had the same problem with yellow, the connection was too vague. Normally yellow is just straight up synonyms, but give me one sentence where all four of these are interchangeable.