#inglenook

[whirligig-girl]

Solving an Inglenook Puzzle in TrainPuzzle dot exe (title pending)

Here's a 10 minute video of me solving an Inglenook Sidings puzzle in TrainPuzzle dot exe (title pending).

TrainPuzzle.exe v0.2 has added a lot of new features to the inglenook test level.

For my part, there's a new warehouse building and 22 new cars.

@msasterisk, who handles all programming and godot engine work (for now), also added rolling resistance (previously cars were frictionless), new coupler icons, siding capacities, a reset button, and most noticeably sound effects. She also refactored the destination fulfillment code to allow for randomized destinations in addition to randomized starting positions. Keep reading

For now at least, each time you restart, the cars and destinations are randomized. For me at this point, taking ten minutes is a little on the long side, but I've been really lucky and gotten some puzzles that I could solve in under two minutes, one time in as few as 4 moves. On the flip side, I've also taken over 20 minutes on some runs, and some playtesters remained stumped for nearly an hour--indicating we have some work to do training players.

The next step will be to implement the ability to make new levels and change between them, and then add some tutorial levels to properly introduce the game mechanics before dumping the player into the inglenook.

The good news is that this game is fun. Between the excellent physics and sound design by MsAsterisk, and my many varied car textures, the game just feels good to play, fundamentally.

(also... v0.2.2... fixed a few minor bugs, including the warehouse not displaying its windows and doors properly.)

[taliatalia]

[carlosison]

Napa is pretty nice.

[haybug1]

Inglenook Blancaneaux ~ Wine of the Day

There is something special about a wine that can warm you from the inside, even when served chilled, especially during the cold winter months. Inglenook Blancaneaux does just this. The winery shines as a quality benchmark in Napa Valley. The historic 235-acre property has 120 separate, organically farmed vineyard plots within the Rutherford AVA. Blancaneaux is the winery’s signature white blend,…

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In the Nook

One of my better wine purchases in recent memory. A few ’11 Casks during the spring sale. $155 marked down to 100 when added to cart. It’s not often you can get such great deals on older vintages with perfect cellar-direct provenance. Here we have a vintage #winebro does not understand and LOVES to hack on, but the 1% adore and even some of the wagging tongues have come around on recently. And…

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Living Room - Traditional Living Room

Living room - large traditional enclosed medium tone wood floor and brown floor living room idea with white walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[danielronnback]

Dining Room in Cedar Rapids Large arts and crafts medium tone wood floor and brown floor great room photo with white walls and no fireplace

[timthepainter]

[psychologistproblems]

Home Office Freestanding New York Small elegant freestanding desk dark wood floor and brown floor home office library photo with brown walls, a corner fireplace and a stone fireplace

[kaleloverboy]

Dining Kitchen An illustration of a mid-sized arts and crafts l-shaped medium tone wood floor and brown floor eat-in kitchen design includes an undermount sink, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, granite countertops, a multicolored backsplash, stone tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, and an island.

[smoke-under-skin]

Dining Room - Great Room Inspiration for a large contemporary dark wood floor and brown floor great room remodel with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

[aplaceonthisworld]

Dining Room Boston Inspiration for a large contemporary dark wood floor and brown floor great room remodel with beige walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

[autumnlesterhowell]

Craftsman Kitchen - Dining An illustration of a mid-sized arts and crafts l-shaped medium tone wood floor and brown floor eat-in kitchen design includes an undermount sink, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, granite countertops, a multicolored backsplash, stone tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, and an island.

[gogandmagog]

Reflecting today on the simplicity of the name ‘Ingleside’ for a house, compared to a good many other homes-with-names in Maud’s catalogue. Ingleside, together with the Disappointed House and the House of Dreams, are rare examples of the very special Montgomery houses… in that are actually given names by the characters in her books, as most houses that we meet in the series have already had their names decided, long ago.  In Anne of Ingleside, Anne says:  “We [she and Gilbert] had quite a time deciding on a name. We tried out several but they didn't seem to belong. But when we thought of Ingleside we knew it was the right one.”   Justaposing this against the importance of names and homes to Lucy Maud, Ingleside seems so schematic. Even if you double-up this thought with how choosy Anne is about places and their names.

Ingleside. Ingleside.

Ingle.

Side.

So then I thought I’d google what an Ingle is, or what it means:

And like... a ha.

And like, if it weren’t for the fact that Ingle is a even a Scottish word (Maud was very proud of her Scottish heritage, and very pleased to marry a Scottish man too, not even mentioning all the Scotchy surnames for her characters in all her books), I might’ve brushed this off as stretching. But now when I look at the word Ingleside, or DOMESTIC FIREside, I think of this name as a preservation or sequel of the name House of Dreams, because it points to the fruition and continuation of that dream that Gilbert had and the castle-in-air that Anne always inexplicably saw Gilbert in, despite herself, back in Anne of Avonlea. “I have a dream,” he said slowly. “I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it...” 

Gilbert’s final proposal, Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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bedtime spindling

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