Zagorath
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
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181·2 days agoSoftware very rarely has an individual’s vision behind it in the same way movies do. At least publicly. There are a small handful of game developers you could say that about, but outside of games the only time a single creator’s vision is relevant in that way is when they also do have creative control over it, and so the need for such a pseudonym doesn’t exist.
I got the last 4 quite quickly, but then spent ages trying to get the first one.
I even thought of the correct answer for 1 after using 3 bolts on it, but then explicitly rejected that possibility, because
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“record high” just felt entirely wrong, and “record player” didn’t work in my head because I was only thinking about a player as in a person.
10·4 days agoTranscription
The “It’s an Older Meme, But It Checks Out” meme, featuring an image of an Imperial officer from Star Wars, with the caption:
It’s an older branch, sir
But it checks out
I usually create new repos through GitHub or another central repo’s system, where it defaults to calling the main branch
main. But I did recently create a new repo with my local Git’sgit init, and had to deal with amasterbranch on a completely new repo for the first time in a while. It was actually kinda a weird experience.
I don’t actually know what the purple is.
Crossherd #275
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Time: 1:05
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I got 2 really easily, but like you, struggled with 1.
Crossherd #274
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Omg. 🤦♂️
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I was so stuck in parsing it as “at oz” that that completely passed me by.
Crossherd #270
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atoz???
I have no idea what that means.
7·10 days agoThe former DDR is actually shockingly visible in a lot of maps of Germany. Electoral voting preferences (especially looking at AfD, die Grunen, and die Linke), various economic indicators, average size of farms, vaccine rates (data I’m seeing is from 2009, may or may not still be true today. This is actually one of the few indicators where the east wins), religion (particularly non-Christian).
You can even get it within a single city. Sydney’s “Red Rooster line” is a well-known example here in Aus.
Non-US players are not going to be happy with today’s puzzle
Yup that was me. Never had a hope of this one. And I’m usually better than most non-Americans at picking up US sport references.
Connections
Puzzle #905
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🟦🟦🟦🟪First time doing it in a while, and it’s a miss.
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I was so sure it was museums. Moma, Sisi, Met, and Dada. And when I got one away, I thought there must just be one other they I didn’t recognise. “Royal”, I tried, but nope…
Omg that is amazing. What a consummate gentleman.