#Isomorphic

[radinagames2020]

Tunic

Rating: 5/5. Mostly due to the constant revelations, mysteries to explore, and satisfying secrets, but I also loved the charming retro aesthetic and the adorable art style.

I don't really know how to sum up this game in words, I loved it so much! It feels like trying to summarize BG3 or IOI (both games I wrote really short posts about lol).

Basically, this game is an isometric action adventure, which isn't usually my style. I put it on easy and either had my better-at-games partner fight the bosses, or just cheesed through boss fights in invincible mode. But it doesn't matter because fighting is not really the point of the game.

The real point of this game is discovering secrets, which is like candy to me. I love a good mystery, and this game is full of them. On the surface, you start with a game manual that's missing most of its pages (oh, and it's in another language). Throughout the game you find more pages which slowly teach you more and more things - which is why this game gives such Outer Wilds vibes, and I've seen people call it a metroidbrainia.

Beyond the manual though, this game has levels and levels of secrets, and we spent about 20 hours solving basically all of them (with some very light googling to assist). I loved it, and now I'm sad I finished it.

Aside from the gameplay being delightful, the game itself is also gorgeous to look at. I love the bright and chunky art style. The controls are smooth, and the music is fun. It's just a wonderful world to lose yourself in, and I really can't recommend it enough!

[jontheblogcentric]

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[bagalois]

i took notes for the first time in a while :> this is for group theory.

[synths-and-sensibility]

Woot, I remapped the keys and it's a lot more intuitive now (at least for 19). Also actually stumbled into a synth patch that I don't hate

[gotyouanyway]

tardis/time lord symbiosis as a mathematical operation along the lines of a complex multidimensional trigonometric proof. transforming each side until they’re not only equivalent but actually identical. ?

[boycritter]

your tattoo is really cool! What is homeomorphism, I looked it up but I’m not sure I understand really, your explanations of maths stuff are always very interesting

a homeomorphism is some sort of continuous deformation (basically squishing it around) that preserves topological properties!

a pretty popular example is a mug being homeomorphic to a donut, because you can squish one into the other without changing its characteristics

if you were to take this donut and squish it down so it’s a perfect sphere, that would not be a homeomorphism! because a sphere has certain properties that the donut doesn’t

one example of a property preserved under homeomorphism is compactness. a space being ‘compact’ is pretty much the same as saying it’s finite, and there’s not a way to magically squish something finite into something infinite

[courtling]

I need to be punished by an Octoberfest in May.

[muses-of-the-memory]

Happy 14th Anniversary, TRON: Legacy!

[jucomx]

Surprising absolutely noone except undergraduate math students, it turns out math actually is only about numbers in the end!

[the-autistic-introvert]

i think the coolest thing about being knowledgeable in something is that you get to have favourites (that other people may not understand). like how math people have their favourite theorems and geoguessr players have favourite poles. its like a secret exclusive group that most people just dont get to see

[kelemengabi]

Lambdoma static waves ISOMORPH OCTAVE

[loki-zen]

TIL

(or at least, had it confirmed) that "onesie" is USAmerican for "babygro" - that is to say, it refers to this garment:

..as well as this garment:

British English (or at least my idiolect) has borrowed the American "onesie" for the latter garment, but not the former.

Which, idk, it's interesting is all!

To check my working, here's the first page of Amazon.com searched for "onesie":

and here's the first page of Amazon.co.uk with the same prompt:

[synths-and-sensibility]

Uh oh, the isomorphic keyboard is looking kind of weird(er)

Question now is how to retune a synth to 19 notes per octave

[bubbloquacious]

So paths between points induce isomorphisms between the fundamental groups based at those points, right. Does this isomorphism depend on the path, or does every path give the same isomorphism?