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Image from my current game - it is very early days ^^

It's not a unique ability (you can do it in Minecraft and a few other games), but it's a bonus. Someone created a ray-tracing program in-game, to run a vaguely Doom-like game ^^
I got Factorio yesterday and have started to familiarize myself with what is, essentially, a signar-driven conveyor belt simulator.

Story is charming, although unrealistic; you lose your spaceship on impact, are the sole survivor, and will go on to build a massive and high-tech base, because you have an IQ of 400.

Any of you have played it? 

The show now officially ended, by the way.
Imo the final episode was bad, but it wasn't like it could have been different.

I'm not so sure these days as I haven't tested it for a while but you used to be able to get away with clicking a wrong square or two on those things.

If I'm not mistaken, aren't the answers based on the answers of everyone else?
I'm fairly sure these captchas are used to train algorithms, so presumably what it usually does is average out people's answers to increase it's own understanding.

I definitely remember hearing that whenever it forces you to do it twice, it's because it knows the answer to one, but is collecting your answer for the other.

I will find an anodyne situation to put that to the test (answer false for the other), but can we be sure it presents the one it knows the answer to first? ^^

Even budget-wise, a myriad of Kickstarter funded ones would be in between.
If they aren't just exit scams, of course 

Unrelated:

Apart from the rest of the craziness, I find it kind of awesome that the Bog tried to prove mathematically they were right in their claim that phi is a transcendental number
Ok, they soon gave up and said it was an editor's typo (LOL), but still.

If I had to guess how the show ends, it will probably be another half-baked twist about Eren's "masterplan".
But assuming they only have a 1 hour final episode to pull it off, it couldn't be convincing even if they employed the greatest writers
They already have ultra-convoluted Eren's plan in s4, with the usual

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time-travel.

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Speaking of which, having to wait months for a final 1 hour episode is cheap and gimmicky itself ^^

(thank you, Mandle! You too, Dan )

Going by the first half of s3 (which I watched), and all of s4 (also watched), the show really has something like 80% filler episodes... 
I'd suppose that the bulk of the fans are there just to see the titans, and in that respect it is a pretty empty show, due to titans being in only a few episodes here and there.
Maybe it could have worked, if they had better dialogue/story writing (other than the titan set-pieces), but imo the characters are generally lame and nondescript, and the titan twist didn't help. Imo they also would have been better off if they simply never explained the origin of the titans, since at least in the anime (haven't read the manga) it was done miserably.

I think there is still one episode (likely around 1 hour long) left to air, sometime this Autumn.
But it won't change anything, the story is basically done.

Hm...
Well, rip.

Yes, the fate of Eren in s1 was what got me to stop watching back in the day - I never watched the full s1 or any of s2, and only saw a part of s3.
The explanation (came much later) of why there even exists a titan ability, was imo really cheap.

Anyone who watched this anime?
I gave up back in season 1, due to bad plot/terrible dialogue. But then started watching again and saw season 4.

Imo this show had a very charming idea, titans attacking walled humans, but the plot twist was not good and it deteriorated to convoluted storyline and gimmicks (origin of titans).

But some scenes are nice:

Still, even that scene, needs you to plug your brain out, to accept that a power with the resources of two entire continents behind it, couldn't install battleship turrets on the port and shoot at the titans legs ^^

Read Chesterton's "Secret Garden". Mmmh, can't say I liked it 

Yes, I would like it to have more character. But when the attempt is to be very detailed, character is harder to achieve imo.
I think my different scale gfx have some character, due to some distortion with proportions (can't really have the main buildings be massive next to houses) and stylized use of the same color tones 

Yes, it wasn't the article, but some similar flourish in a lecture. More than likely one of the detective story speeches to universities.

Maybe you should have put that in spoiler tags, btw.

I am not sure if it is available outside book form - quite possibly it's not yet in the public domain (if that applies to his lectures, anyway). I read it in an edition of all his articles and lectures

Afaik the Invisible Man is widely regarded as one of Chesterton's most memorable stories. I have read it, of course, and while the reveal is a bit trivial and artificial, the story has some other merits. In a lecture by Borges, it was correctly mentioned that the more striking part is about how a character there dies (and suggestion of other means), not the reveal.

It wasn't presented in this thread as a supernatural story, otherwise I'd not have wasted my time with it either. It's just that Carr is too low value to pull off this type of twist

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so up to the end he tried to play down the supernatural angle but then thought it would be great if he subverted expectations.

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Of course it wasn't. One of the worst junk I've read ^^ (ok, I should also state the obvious, that just because it wasn't for me, it doesn't mean no one could enjoy it for positive reasons of their own).

Chesterton isn't the best writer, but he rightly is regarded as being a capable one - which is rare (not impossible) for those delving into detective stories. Some of his detective stories don't feature father Brown (I mentioned the White Pillars one which is freely available online).