#combination puzzle

[tilbageidanmark]

34x34 Rubik's Cube

[frenchublog]

[prostocupoftea]

For someone who knows every film ever he shure does not do enough referenses (:

Fyi - that's Edgar from electric dreams, Gertie 3000 from Moon and Hal 9000 from space oddysey

[the-lion-guard-88]

PuzzlENA meets Mr. Puzzles from the Mr. Puzzles ENA AU

PuzzlENA by me

Mr. Puzzles ENA AU design belongs to @j-demi

[househeritageposts]

I’m a chase x house truther…

i see the vision (pretty boy with daddy issues x curmudgeonly old authority figure) but can i present to you the beautiful toxic yaoi love between foreman and house. hear me out:

[coffeerhythm]

The fact that there's no evidence that Raphael can pick locks is insanely funny.

[ak-liano]

I have a videogame idea and I'm delusional about it does anyone wanna hear me out on it 💔

[lunar-inkclipse]

Hi Lunar, I’m afraid I overthought my “If you REALLY wanna go crazy, you could throw Murdle Jr. in there and cast the junior kids as Dipper and Mabel :P” reply and now have a semi-coherent plot in mind. I could’ve written another fic about it, but I’m lazy, so in an ask, here’s my pitch:

Jake, Julius, and Olivia come to Gravity Falls to stay with Julius’s uncle (well…they think. Maybe. Julius’s family is pretty sure there’s a relation, even if none of them quite know what it is) for the summer, Julius having invited the other two along (lord knows how long it took to get Olivia’s dad to agree with that). While there, they come across Logico, who’s investigating (and trying to find rational explanations for) the town’s many oddities. Jake, naturally, is like “HECK YEAH I’M IN” because she has no regard for her own personal safety, Julius was interested from the moment the paranormal is mentioned, and Olivia…well, Olivia basically takes it upon herself to make sure neither of them get injured along the way :P

So the story progresses with the gang investigating various mysteries and getting into shenanigans along the way, all while trying to keep Irratino from figuring out what they’re doing (sure, he loves the occult, but everyone agrees this might be a bit much). But as the investigations continue, it soon becomes clear there are some seriously sinister oddities in Gravity Falls, and Irratino might be more involved than any of them thought…

I know this is probably a lot less oxymorons-focused than any of y’all wanted, but hey, maybe it can be a “two lines, no waiting” kind of thing—A-plot is about the kids investigating the mysteries, B-plot follows Logico and Irratino’s wacky rom-com shenanigans (because wouldn’t it be funny if these two started their romance when Logico thought Irratino was just Julius’s oddball uncle :D). Anyway, uh, I spent a lot of time writing that, so if you don’t like the pitch, I’ll have to do it myself so it doesn’t go to waste— /j

(But seriously, thanks for the inspo; I love Murdle, I love Gravity Falls, and I love overthinking things XD)

Wait wait this idea is cool as hell and I've been thinking about it all day (now that I finally have time at *checks watch* 13 hours later)

The Murdle Jr kids would be such good Dipper and Mabel inserts, and Jake's energy and determination and Julius's never ending curiosity and leaning towards the esoteric. As for Olivia, I kinda feel like she could fill in the role of Pacifica, in a way? Not in the "Rich girl who has her own posse" way but as "Daughter of way too rich, jerk dad who ends up befriending the weirdo but down to earth kids she met, who become her first real friends". She's more aloof because she's busy with coding and work rather than socializing, you know? Do you see the vision?

Anyways, Julius would be sent off to visit his uncle for the summer (...which of his parents had a brother, exactly? Or was it his parents who had a brother who had a brother? Why haven't they talked much before this, anyhow? Julius has lots of questions), and he invites Jake along (they're besties now I say so). They meet Olivia and bring her into their shenanigans, and you bet your ass Buster is the perfect Waddles stand in. Julius and Jake are pretty happy staying with Julius's uncle Irratino, even if Irratino is really rather odd. He's perfectly nice, just strange in a way you can't really put into words. The kids end up meeting Logico, who's been investigating this town to prove that there's a perfectly logical explanation for all the strange happenings (and murders) in the town. And he's able to, for the most part, in notebooks filled with grids deducing what's going on, but he's not quite satisfied with what he's finding. There's a surface level logical explanation that's pretty good,, but Logico wants to make perfect sense of what's going on here. And someone should probably keep an eye on these three kids and their cat, and maybe point them in the right direction. And when Logico eventually meets Irratino, he's very certain of two things: A) Irratino is incredibly gorgeous, how the hell did a man this hot wind up in this backwater town and not Hollywood, and B) There's something off about him. Really off. More than just how he peddles his oddities and seems rich enough to buy God.

Hence, the lore and plot starts!! I'm absolutely all for the ideas of the A and B plots of the kids solving mysteries and Logico getting more romantically entangled with Irratino (Logico's just like "Be careful investigating today and pack sunscreen. Also Julius is uh. is your uncle single. it's for a case. does he like men. it's very important for my deductions" bahahaa). Which could also lead into some conflicts as perhaps Logico figures out the truth about Irratino before the kids do, and now he's torn between what's more important to him: Unveiling the truth and discovering the logic and science behind Irratino, and extra-dimensional being, or protecting him. He wanted to find the truth, right? But should he be protecting Irratino, when he doesn't know what he's planning, what he plans to do? You see the vibes here??

(I uh still gotta figure out a bit more about Irratino's main motives in this universe but you bet the Murdle Jr kids are getting so much screentime in this AU!) Thank you so so much for the ask!!! I'm rotating this in my head so hard rn hahahah

[quantomeno]

(Spoilers for Prof. Layton games 2, 3 and 4)

The UK/European Layton game titles are better than the US ones:

Pandora's Box/Diabolical Box:

Now, some might think conflating the legends of two different boxes is bad, and I admit the fact there are two names to the box in game is a bit annoying ("the Elysian Box, also known as Pandora's Box" was such a confusing line to hear as a child, especially because the Elysian/Elysium connection didn't click (and I was at my peak Greek myth period too)), but I like it. Firstly because it's more attractive to the potential buyer since you think he's discovered the real Pandora's Box of myth, and then it's just clearly a parallel with the myth. The other reason is that in the legend of Pandora's box, the only thing left in the box is hope. And it's the hope that Sophia will receive Anton's letter, the hope hers will get to him and he will forgive her, that the box really carries. Also it's a play on the fact Elysian is also from Greek myth (i.e. the heavenly field the good go to when they die), so it makes sense that the people who nicknamed it were thinking about Greek myths.

Lost Future/Unwound Future

The future Layton and Claire had was lost. Simple as that. Also it makes her farewell speech sound better: "Our shared past and our lost future". The American version just sounds silly. Unwound works ok because it also works for the 'future London' being a future where things go wrong, but yeah, if Claire has to say the title, it has to be Lost Future. Also it sounds more dramatic. Plus lost still works in the sense things went bad because they 'lost' (i.e. didn't win) or they got lost (in a moral sense), like things are so bad it can't be rescued (so they had to go back in time to fix it).

Spectre's Call/Last Specter

The fact Last Specter and Lost Future sound so similar bugs me but most players outside Australia won't have both titles in their collection so anyway. Why is the spectre the 'last' one? It is never called the last spectre, so why name that game like that? There's clearly a spectre's call though and it's an integral plot point. The only thing I can think of is that 'last' is a reference to Loosha being the last of her kind, but I feel that's too confusing a connection because it's not clear until quite close to the end. It made me think I was missing something, or had misheard Descole's story in the opening. Also Spectre's call sounds more ominous, though it's a pretty close one here, unlike LF/UF where one clearly sounds more serious.

[st4r-slxt]

"Chaotic mind such as mine had always been complex!"-me I kinda love this OC lmao| It's a combination of Mr Puzzle, RGB, Vox and Alastor 😋

[thelaurenshippen]

made to love resident evil games, born to be afraid of spiders

[dykedvonte]

you make really good points, I think I used the term karmic wrong sorry. I think of it more as not how I personally think he deserved all that happened to him (which thinking back os exactly what karma means, I messed up sorry), but as his fate being directly tied/parallel to anyas. I handnt noticed the toxicity of jimmy and curlys relationship, from the first playthrough I watched and the first interactions I had w fandom I saw so many ppl just. dismiss the terror Anya went through and focus too much on him as the "ultimate victim" and that just didn't sit well w me. I really dislike seeing ppl go "oh well nothing could've been done" I think it's much more complex than that. also I forgot to mention in the last ask that I really appreciate you bringing the point that this game isn't just about the harm of patriarchy but also very very critical to capitalism, I haven't seen too many ppl touch on this. I hadn't thought too deeply about how it makes "he deserved to become disabled as punishment" come up and I agree that's really messed up. I'll try watching a playthrough again with all of this in mind. but either way thanks! I really appreciate your answer 🫶🏼

I guess this is just part of being in a fandom like this. I've noticed a lot of people don't actually see posts outside of their curated view. So some people only get like anya posting or jimmy or curly and it can make it seem like that is what is saturating the conversation.

I mainly just follow the general tags and look for anything new because I'm like obsessed but I know some are only looking for what they want or believe to be the case and can get weird about other ideas.

Sorry if I came off mean its just a last few of the asks have been like circular conversations like this and its not draining per say but seeing all the nuance and details get overlooked to fit a straightforward and basic narrative really sucks cause there's a lot to explore character and theme wise.

[highfiveteamhotchkiss]

matching screenshots of despair for you and the bff <3

[midnightdemonhunter]

Whatever lol *fuses your bad kids*

[ngeruma]

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[lunar-inkclipse]

they need to make AUs that are less mind consuming so I can finish my SoM chapter 3 fic or study for exams or do other responsibilities fr. anyways in the DBH Murdle AU do you think Irratino would call android Logico "Starlight" because the little LED in his temple is another little glowing light that lets him get a glimpse into the unknowable, aka what's going on inside Logico's head as he's processing things. do you think one of the first instabilities in Logico's software was to have 'starlight' register as a name he'll respond to, despite no one asking him to do so. do you think he realizes this and knows he should delete it, it's a one off comment and probably indicative of a glitch but he hesitates for reasons he can't articulate.