#book of puzzles

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i will never understand why more people in their 80s don't commit felonies. you reach that age and surely there's something illegal you always wanted to do but didn't bc Consequences

dammit, GO FORTH GRANNIES!!! rob an armored car! hold up that bank! tunnel your way into fort knox! what are they gonna do, sentence you to 20 years? good fuckin luck with that

[bioethicists]

i genuinely have no animosity towards ppl who get upset abt not being able to read academic texts + i do think we need to expand the pathways/methods of being exposed to critical concepts so that "sit + read for 2 hours" is not the only option.

however, as someone dx with adhd + incapable of sitting still for even a minute (actually right at this moment i am writing this instead of reading the book sitting open in front of me), i do feel like a lot of ppl do not realize that not all readings are designed to be read like a novel.

as in, it's ok + normal + good to need to reread a paragraph several times, to only read part of a book, to have to research or reference words or concepts in order to grasp the reading, to skip over large chunks of text which are not relevant to your expertise, to continue reading despite not understanding a concept. this is something 'neurotypical' academics do frequently + many of these texts, especially contemporary ones, were designed with this in mind.

there are many ppl with accessibility needs that are not being met by academic texts at this time! many texts (in my humble opinion) are unnecessarily complex in order to show off or hide the fact that they have no idea what they're talking about.

i still feel like many of the kneejerk reactions on this site are based on the assumption that their experience reading academic texts should be similar to their experiences reading a nyt bestseller, rather than a process of thinking, analyzing, researching, processing, returning. some of u are telling yourself that any challenges u face while reading are a result of some internal fault u have + not an expected + precious part of the experience.

[stefan-aigner]

They have the same aura, right?

I am confident in what I say.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

im going full cornplate reaching mode here and zooming in on this book in daniel's apartment

"a pictorial history of the talkies" by daniel blum, published 1958. it covers the history of sound films from the late 1920s to 1958

well...... who do we know who has a fascination with cinema & projections....

(also fun fact the first publicly shown synchronised sound films were exhibited at the 1900 paris exposition)

[commanderfreddy]

geordi was so fuckin real for casting himself as watson like his idea for a perfect evening was to book out the holodeck and acquire period appropriate outfits just so he could listen to data infodump at length

"we have time for me to be your watson" <- worlds greatest Autism Flirtation

[dansemacabre]

decoded a stan twins “fun” fact from book of bill below the cut. SPOILERZ

if you assign the bros secret code to a thru z in order (see figure 1):

then you can decode what ford writes in the journal when he’s thinking about calling stanley (see figure 2, already decoded)

this is devastating right? this is bad and evil and makes you want to curl up and weep? because he misses his brother so dearly and it’s really tragic that they’ve been so angry with each other for so long? Well it gets worse

there’s a bit in the end where stanley cussed out bill. i recognized the code and Chat i wanted this word to be fuck so badly you had no idea. i would’ve been happy with a bullshit. but INSTEAD it’s SAD AND DISMAL.

assuming that ! is y (since it’s not legible from the photo) it says LOVE YA BRO. SHUT THE FUCK UP.

this hurts right? this too is bad? because now you’ve let The Implications sink in. because The Implications are that over decades and decades of hating each other and missing each other and Being Complicated both stanley and stanford REMEMBERED the secret code they made together at 12.

and then you go, duh! stanley got his memory wiped. stanford must have RETAUGHT HIM THE BROS SECRET CODE. WHICH IS ALMOST SADDER AND SWEETER.

DUDE. DUDEEEEEE

they are so brothers. this made me really abnormal. if u can’t tell

[fandommothfreak]

I think movie buff Duke Thomas should force Jason to watch the LOTR movies and literature nerd Jason Todd should force Duke to read the books.

They should make a movie night out of it and then a weekly book club that's really just Jason periodically hacking comms during Duke's patrol so he can yell at him to finish each chapter like a deranged English teacher that follows you around at work. And then they should get into heated arguments about Tom Bombadil; and Duke should get really invested in overanalyzing all the poetry in the book trilogy; and Jason should rewatch all three movies like seven times at least so he can scribble thoughts into the margins of his paperback copies, write dissertations in his head about the effectiveness of different story changes, and cry at Sam's "But I can carry you!" without having to stop reading.

And then they should repeat all of this with The Hobbit. They're both a little psychotic about it and the rest of the family is tired.

[quadratablog]

I’m excited to share that my latest book is officially out now!

This unique book of mathematical puzzles also serves as an introduction to Group Theory. No prior background is needed, as all necessary mathematical concept are explained within the book. You can grab your copy today at the Springer website link below or find it on Amazon or other online retailers. I'd love for you to check it out, and feel free to let me know what you think!

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[egophiliac]

Hello! Could I ask how many chapters does the jp server currently have? I believe you're at the 12th part but I'm not sure. Part 7 came out in the eng server and the measly 16 chapters with no chapters within chapters destroyed me, so I'm trying to estimate how many we'll get when parts come out

yep, we're in the middle of 7-12 right now! they started splitting them up further starting with 11, so we got chapter 11 part 1, then chapter 11 part 2, and we're due chapter 12 part 2 (and maybe 3?) later this month. we've been getting them more regularly though, so it seems like they're switching to smaller but more frequent story drops!

I think Eng is following the same chapter breakdown as JP for these ones, and they've mostly been a decent length each IMO -- 9 was on the short side (two-person dorms go by so fast...) but we're getting nice little wrap-ups to the characters' arcs so I personally haven't felt, like, shortchanged or anything so far! it is SUPER hard being patient though (I'm lucky enough to be able to play it immediately and I'm still dying over here), so. ...I'm hoping the smaller drops help with that. :')

if you want the actual chapter numbers so far:

chapter 8 - 117-139

chapter 9 - 140-157

chapter 10 - 158-191

chapter 11 - 192-211 (part 1) / 212-226 (part 2)

chapter 12 - 227-244 (part 1)

(pretty sure these are correct, but if someone notices that they're off, please let me know!)

[meandtheveggies]

mondee

[apollos-polls]

Anon requested this to be posted without the ask!

[hkthatgffan]

Ah, February 15th. It's an important day for so many reasons. Of course, as you all know, today marks the 9 year anniversary of Weirdmageddon 3 airing and with it, the end of Gravity Falls as a series! It's crazy to think when I first joined the fandom in 2017, this episode was not even a year old yet...now it's a year away from being a decade old.

What's more, there's some other important GF related anniversaries today too. 12 years ago today, Boss Mabel aired in 2013, ending the first major hiatus for Gravity Falls and being the first episode to air that year. It's also the 7 year anniversary of the Puzzling Pines event that Alex Hirsch held on Twitter in 2018, through which the cover and name of the then upcoming GF graphic novel was revealed; Lost Legends! I still remember that night so well and waiting to see who would have the next piece of the puzzle. Till last year, it was the closest thing I ever got to experience in the GF fandom to what it must've been like when the show was airing.

Today is also the 60th anniversary of the flag of Canada; my home! I'm so grateful for all that this amazing country has given me the chance to do. I'm proud to be Canadian and always will be thankful for the life I have and never will take it for granted. Shout out to my fellow Canadians. We're lucky to call this beautiful country home!

Oh also, new video dropping at 3PM EST today about Gravity Falls of course, lol. It's about Alex's Tumblr post in 2015 that ended the show and how it still holds up today!

New Video Link!

In the mean time, check out this awesome video by Valkyrie247 from 2017 to mark the 1 year anniversary of Gravity Falls ending!

It's one of my all time favourite GF tribute videos and I always love rewatching it to mark the occasion.

To 9 years of Gravity Falls being over, 7 years of Lost Legends' cover being revealed, 12 years of Boss Mabel and 60 years of one of the most beautiful flags ever!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[stefan-aigner]

🧩🦷⚠️

[when-wulf]

People compare Gale to a puppy dog because of his sweet personality and big sad eyes and not for the true reason which is that if you don’t provide him with enough attention and mental stimulation he will become incredibly destructive.

[leejaliie]

Average day in Primp Town