BlaineBlaine

I know the Drew meme came (and probably went), but I don't even use Twitter. I'm not following Giant Bomb or anyone. Is the Twitter icon like this for anyone else?!

It saves pretty regularly. If you want to ensure it 'saved' change you color. That always auto-saves.

When you restart, you'll have no items, but they're in storage immediately north.

Absolutely. I'm just saying that Giant Bomb should be made aware as they likely have an interest.

I'm not trying to demonize anyone here... engineer, site or corporation.

Normally, changes to an API are a calculated move, and the calculations need to include some attrition. Either minimized functionality, or loss of device support.

There's a chance Kodi might be the latter and not the former.

I wouldn't blame the plug-in developers if they don't care to update (again, no one is paying them to do this work). Giant Bomb is being paid, and theoretically could write their own plug-in, but the number of users they are likely to lose without Kodi? Let's say it's me and 9 other people. It wouldn't be worth it for them to dedicate a resource to retain that revenue.

It's a shame, really.

Well... It kinda is. GB radically changed their API and structure for purely internal reasons. There's no altruism to the modifications. They're a business, they're welcome to do so.

I'm not going to get on a soapbox about why, but to me (and only me), I'd rather my paying subscribers have access to my content with some non-paying leeches tagging along instead of having only some of my paying subscribers accessing the content and none of the leeches.

I've been basically quiet on the forums about this switch, but I don't watch videos anymore because Kodi is my primary media center. It's the reason I still subscribe. I've been a paying member since paid memberships were offered. I've never once downloaded the ad-free version of the podcast, because I don't mind listening to ads. I still have all my t-shirt codes.

If the Kodi add-on isn't working by the time I'm up for renewal in the summer, I honestly can't think of why I'd bother to renew. I'll still listen and be a fan, but unless I'm buying a mattress, they most likely won't see any monetary advantage to my patronage. I probably won't just throw my money away.

Maybe I'm the only one that feels that way. Third-party or not, it's a solution that a lot of subscribers want and use. Giant Bomb has absolutely benefited from it's existence, and has even touted all of the avenues to their content.

Since GB made the changes and compatibility is now broken, they should have a vested interest in seeing these plug-ins fixed and their engineers should be offering as much assistance to the plug-in developers as possible.

You'll note the number of weasel words like "should" because, I don't think Giant Bomb has any obligation in this matter. But neither do the plug-in developers. They don't get paid, and they didn't break compatibility.

No one has an obligation here. Not Giant Bomb, not the coders, and not the subscribers. We have no obligation to re-up. That's why I think, perhaps, they should care.

yup!

Remember the moving bridge? Solve the puzzle, but solve it backwards

Then run, quickly, in another direction and get back to enjoying the game.

I went to the Red Tree house, solved it, and now I'm in the town square. Got the 3 color output panel (that took a bit) but the panel on the roof stumped me, so I called it a night.

Even if I'm in the minority, compared to other parts of the game, I think the rules of the marsh are poorly communicated.

How? Do the puzzle in reverse? Is there a button?

Because, cards on the table, I'm irritated enough to just quit. The first two sections I really had fun with, 3rd one (apple orchard) was ok, but this one I'm just not digging at all. And if the game is going to make me push through... yeah...

I've had a really rough week, maybe I can come back to this area again and it will makes sense to me.

@bushpusherr said:

@blaineblaine:

The problem is you aren't respecting the icons inside your isolations....

In this first image, you've isolated all three of the icons into one group, which means you can reorganize the positions of those shapes within that isolation however you wish. (Looking at the image from left to right, you could fit those three shapes in these orders: 3x3x1, 3x1x3, or 1x3x3) You can *only* do this sort of reordering because you've encapsulated all three icons in the same isolated section.

In the second image, you've created three separate groups to encapsulate the icons, instead of one. Now, inherently there isn't anything wrong with giving each icon it's own isolation (as you pointed out yourself in your last image). However, the *icon inside the isolation must fit*. Looking at isolation #1 in the above image, you've only sectioned off 1 cell to hold a shape that must be at least 3 large. Inversely, for isolation #2 you've created an isolation containing 3 spaces, but the icon inside demands that only one space is allowed. Isolation #3 is being correctly used here. Here is another image to demonstrate:

Out of curiosity, this does not appear to follow that rule:

The 3 vertical pieces would not fit in the area given of the icon. But it is a part of the overall whole. It's acceptable to transpose where the key icons lay in the total outline, so long as the pieces fit. At least, to me, shows what I was attempting isn't an incorrect solution.

And it might be a question of ambiguity, that it's not 'right' because it's not the 'right' that Johnathan is looking for, even if it seemingly follows his rules.

And I do agree, many of you may be right that I'm just at this section too early... but the bridge at the beginning moves, and I'll be damned if I can find a way out without going forward.

You might be right. Again, I'm totally willing to concede I'm just in a bad mood. A lot of people appear to be internalizing the message.

It's like John Hodgman's solution to the "Oxford Comma Problem" which usually goes something like "I'd like to thank my mother, Ayn Rand(,) and God" which reads three ways ; Thanking 3 people, 2 people (my mother who is Ayn Rand) and one person (my mother who is Ayn Rand and is God).

His solution is "Sometimes a sentence wants to be ambiguous, and you just need to rewrite it".

Maybe I'm the only one finding ambiguity. Maybe it's just not for me.

Like this later puzzle:

The solution to 2 vertical three block tetronimos and single block is a 7 block horizontal section.

But I try to respect the orientation...

This is not an acceptable solution. Despite this very method of path drawing working on previous panels:

I do appreciate everyone's feed back. I'll keep going, because I don't really like to return games, but I don't think Johnathan Blow and I are on the same frequency.

I spent about 35 minutes on a single puzzle until I gave up and looked up the answer. This is partially a grump-post and partially I'm hoping someone can correct my thinking (otherwise this game might not be what I want).

The Witness is essentially teaching you the 'rules' via immersion: You do something, you pick up on the vocabulary, repeat. If you've ever used Rosetta Stone, it's remarkably similar.

In order for that to work, it has to follow a logic. It's gotta be internally consistent.

Please chime in if you see some logic to this puzzle that I don't.

Puzzle A: Solving the puzzle you can take away two apparent conclusions. You are to isolate a shape that is 2 blocks on top of 4 blocks to the left, or that you are to isolate 6 blocks with the icons included.

Puzzle B: Does not really change those conditions, the same 'lessons' are being taught.

Puzzle C: Only makes sense, if the point if the icons is to indicate 'isolate 6 blocks, with the icons included'. This is not illustrating 'isolate these shapes in this order'. That would require a square with a short rectangle to the side, which is not possible in that 3x3 grid.

Puzzle D: Reinforces the 'Isolate X blocks with the icons contained' as that is a simple path to accomplish that.

Puzzle E: Is where the poor logic comes home to roost. It returns to the initial possibility of 'isolate these specific shapes', but that has already been dis-proven by Puzzle C. All of the puzzles are internally consistent, until this one. This could have been solved by isolating 6 blocks, in a step-like pattern before exiting.

So it looks like Puzzle C is, basically, 'wrong' at least within the logic of this vocabulary.

Can anyone offer any thoughts on how both C and E can be 'true'?

I've been using Kodi for a few years, I guess now, never had any problems (rarely had any problems).

But it's not even generating an error right now, it's just not working.

Click on a video, waits a second, and then nothing.