#sand puzzle

[leileixixi]

Hold it~ 😏

[luoque]

guess I need to be the one man content machine for luo que stuff huh

[raycatz]

Some dungeon predictions (and things I'd just like to see xD ) for the upcoming arc!

(inspired by boards I've seen in the past. like this! Art from @/linkeduniverse!)

I love Zelda dungeons and LU dungeon crawling fics are some of my favorites! I'm so excited to see what puzzles Jojo's come up with! Nine person puzzles? Let's goOOO!!! There's so many possible interesting things to do with the chain's items and abilities.

[stararise]

evil professor layton: i encourage the use of calculus to solve this puzzle

[soft-stims]

Sally Starlet stimboard for anon

x x x - x x - x x x

[just-a-madrigal]

Coucou want fruit!

Ransom of the Seven Ships

Nancy Drew Embroideries

[shadyufo]

Finally almost done with these guys! The Black Jackalopes of Inlé!

These resin wall mounts started out as more cool knick-knacks I bought at Tractor Supply back around Christmas with plans to customize. Here’s the ornaments I already did—sasquatch and a chicken. And here’s what the jackalopes looked like before.

I knew I wanted to repaint these to make them more Jackalope of Death-like but as I worked on them I decided they needed a little more than paint to make them stand out—like some bone armor/ornamentation. So I raided all of my stashes of spare bones, picked out all the rabbit bones I could find, and got to it. Painted them, drilled holes and attached wire posts in the skulls and all of the larger bones, and then drilled holes in the jackolopes to attach them for some extra stability along with the adhesive. 

Still need to do some paint touch-ups, gloss the eyes, and seal them then one of these will be up for grabs in my Etsy shop!

...and then I'll start on more dental plaques <3

[foolexpedition]

Kids by Puzzle @ The Novo 12.01.2023

[bobcat-pie]

yes i know everything about this game. no i haven't played it.

[scopostims]

wonder woman stimboard for anon :•]

[ID: A 3x3 stimboard themed around Wonder Woman, the center image being her logo. Clockwise from top left, the GIFs show:

GIF 1: A popup book being opened, the paper forming a 3D wonder woman.

GIF 2: Someone spinning a red and blue fidget spinner with the wonder woman logo in the center.

GIF 3: 4 plaster spheres on a skewer being cracked one at a time, top to bottom the spheres are green, blue, red, and yellow.

GIF 4: A closeup of a red star outline, and someone is lining the inside of it with a blue paint pen.

GIF 5: Someone playing with a red, yellow, and blue tangle toy.

GIF 6: A rectangular cookie with wonder woman painted on it, and someones painting her logo towards the bottom of the cookie.

GIF 7: Someone pushing around tiles in a sliding puzzle, made of small yellow squares, a blue rectangle, and a large red square.

GIF 8: A muddler being pressed into a kinetic sand cylinder thats layered with red, yellow, blue, and white kinetic sand.

End ID]

[leileixixi]

“Although I am good looking, I never lie.”

[houseofcatwic]

1960s SKIPPY Jigsaw puzzles.

[lutiaslayton]

Hi everyone! This is a post I’ve been thinking of making on and off, and was sort of hoping I wouldn’t need to—but which I have decided to write now just to be on the safe side, since weeks are passing and the time I am able to spend on datamining and analysing the canon evidence is not nearly enough for me to get any real work done. And with the last few months of my PhD coming at a much higher speed than I’d like, things are not going to get any better.

I will start by giving you all a small gift: This Google Drive folder!

It provides a list of .zip files, one per game, which contain the datamined text I was able to retrieve. The raw text, and nothing else.

I initially only wanted to make it public once I would be actually done cleaning up the files (you will soon see that CV, DB and UF are all marked as “WIP”), but once again, “cleaning up the files” is an absolute nightmare for the DS games. We’re talking more than a thousand files per language, per game, that need to be edited one by one in order to remove a pile of garbage characters, sometimes separate files that are merged and contain lots of garbage characters in-between, and in some cases re-encoding the files into UTF-8 format instead of Shift-JIS—and all of this manually, because python has been incapable of reading files that contain said garbage characters, and because although I did use a few scripts and commands to trim things down a bit and make the human job easier, I am not confident enough in bash to fully know what I’m doing with it. So, yes, a nightmare. I gained a new appreciation for the 3DS games for being so nice and easy to clean up in comparison.

So yeah, since I won’t be able to clean up these files anytime soon anyway, I decided to share the link now! Because it’s technically been here for months, and hasn’t changed much in that time. It’s still a mess regarding the original trilogy, I apologise for it being a mess, but I did what I could and this is all I can provide for the time being. At least be thankful that MM, AL and vsAA all have “Condensed” versions that gather every single line of text in a human readable format, inside one single file per language, prepared by yours truly (and python, which this time was cool and helpful <3)

Announcement n°2: The playthrough and the Puzzle Theory™

Because I don’t have much free time, I have not yet had the opportunity to look at EVERYTHING that is canon, do stuff such as making statistics to back up my biassed observations (something I also happen to suck at, which isn’t helping), and so on. While I do not regret writing the Puzzle Theory posts I made in the past, I do want to put an asterisk to them: here’s your PSA reminder to check your sources, and not believe blindly everything I say. While I try to support every point I make by citing my exact sources and providing the evidence I’m using to support my claims, I am still a flawed human being capable of making mistakes—and the fact that I haven’t yet reviewed every single line of dialogue in order to make a thorough search of every piece of evidence that the canon provides is the major thorn in my side in that matter.

I am fully aware that this is all done only for fun and in good faith, but I’m also very much aware that what I’m trying here is to make a theory that is 100% canon compliant; and, well, I can’t exactly claim in good faith that everything in the theory is 100% canon compliant until I’ve actually done my research to 100% too now, can I?

The fact that the theory has evolved since I first posted about it, and that I am for example no longer supporting the idea that every single puzzle in the universe was created because of the Azran, is proof that the theory is a work in progress. I am therefore losing confidence, not in the credibility of the entire theory, but in the credibility of some aspects of it that are one line of dialogue away from being potentially proven wrong and replaced with a more credible hypothesis.

So now, first because I don’t have the time to do that review stuff, and second because I don’t want to risk saying things that I will find out later down the line to be incorrect, I’d rather avoid talking in too much depth about the puzzle theory up until I’ve finally been able to dive into the canon lore from the first to the very last line of dialogue. I will still answer asks if I get them, of course, but just be aware that my answers will most likely be vague “maybes” rather than “oh yeah I 100% agree.” Either your assumptions can be disproved or clarified by canon evidence I do remember coming across, and I will therefore say “at least I know that this very specific thing you said contradicts canon because of X source,” or I will just give a patient and prudent nod paired up with a noncommital shrug.

I will not edit my previous posts, but here’s the reminder once again—don’t believe every word you read without using your own brain cells first! (Someone’s whispering in my ear that a certain someone y’all may or may not know once said that “Critical thinking is the key to success.” Wise words.) As a PhD student who currently works in academic research, I can tell you that whether in IRL science or in “fandom research for fanfic purposes,” in both cases the journey can lead to flawed hypotheses proven wrong, and other mistakes that must be corrected. My view of the puzzle theory has evolved once again bit by bit since I last posted here, but I’d rather avoid talking about it too much out of fear of stating even more new hypotheses that could end up being wrong later down the line, and would only spread confusion over anything else.

So, although puzzles being somewhat sentient and part of the Laytonverse inhabitants’ daily lives is pretty much an indisputable fact, anything that tries to explain how puzzles work or where they come from is still a massive mystery whose resolution is a work in progress at best, an unsolvable mystery that will end up being completely impossible to decipher at worst.

Reading every single piece of dialogue that’s available in canon (+ in the Japan-exclusive content) is on my to-do list, so I can narrow things down, clarify what is most likely to be “potentially canon,” and add errata to the hypotheses I made in the past that ended up being either contradicted by canon, or at the very least not as likely as a different, more recent hypothesis — and the playthrough series is definitely going to continue along with it. It’s just… not something I am physically capable of doing right now.

Announcement n°3 : Stable Like Sand

Last thing, about my fanfic series: as much as I would love to keep writing it every day, and as much as I probably will keep writing it from time to time, I just need to remind myself that there is… another thing I also need to write right now. A thing that people usually call a “thesis.” So, uh, I can’t say whether SLS will be put on complete hiatus for now, and I really hope it won’t, but I also can’t make any promises either way. I’m only saying this as a reassurance: don’t ask whether or not SLS will be discontinued, because it absolutely is not going to be! I am simply obligated to write something else for my IRL studies/job (technically both?), something that is much less fun, and because of this, I just don’t know how much of my free time I will have left for SLS. Just keep in mind that up until December, I will be even busier a bee than I’ve already been so far, and I don’t really know what my agenda will be like during that time (and what comes after that is even more uncertain, but I do hope that at least it won’t be as filled to the brim with tasks to take care of).

All in all, this post was made just to give you some quick news, reassure people that even though I may perhaps disappear for a few months at some point without warning, I’m not going anywhere. I am just going to be most likely very busy and stressed out, and perhaps I will not be able to stay responsive at times, but I’m not going to actually disappear forever. And in the best case scenario, perhaps I won’t even disappear at all!

[impossible-rat-babies]

what gets me sometimes w the idea of the calamity is that there are probably places in the deserts of thanalan where the fire of bahamut turned the sand to glass and it’s just. a few handfuls of sand there are layers of glass

[braveryy-14]

Papyrus from Undertale stimboard!!🍝☆

[bbgoffic]

Let's Play Through Salt and Sand(Demo)

Sheva route, True Ending (1 of 4)

Sihm wakes up on her coming of age day with fire in her heart! "This is it! Today we're going to have an Adventure and no one can tell us no!"

Meet the residents of Dejaret, a small village that used to be a dig site for the Tri'Elis University. Prosperous times are behind them after a major collapse of the cave sites twenty years ago.

Will Sihm's thirst to explore the world around them uncover a way to breath life back into her home? Will she meet new people and old friends along the way? Will her sense of self preservation ever kick in?

Through Salt and Sand has a different story for each of the supporting characters each having four different endings. The demo contains the story routs for the characters Sheva and Gaell, but three more are planned for the finished game including Sihm's "Main" story line.

An update to the demo is planned, adding a fishing mini game and related economy and tasks.

You can find the current demo on itch.io!