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Buy my game, Mathdoku Getaway, now! https://itnoetic.itch.io/mathdoku-getaway C++ user, MBTL, UNI2, & GG Strive shill, piano practicer, board gamer, Gunpla builder, hip-hop beat snob, simracer, stick shifter, righteous Tarnished, FGC member

rome streetz lookin out the window in the front passenger seat of a yellow car, possibly at some money he's about to make
senna from 2xko, Black woman with giant sword that is also a laser beam gun
tomb raider weird triangle box
mvci all star graphic with captain america
My response to the Game Worker Hardship Fund Application has been recorded.
chris pratt doesn't know what's happening on the left side of the screen and at this point, is too afraid to ask
100 degrees F, feels like 112
lowhigh landing a counter hit kick to decimate his opponent with a pixel of life left with 2 seconds on the clock in the final round of a match that was about to kick him out of the tournament
vf6 main character getting a tooth punched out by his opponent in 1st person view
diagrams showing how the way you use a model is more impactful to its output than the model's own capabilities
3rd strike online edition poster showing akuma and chun li, with "Kuni" written in the corner
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july 9 8 pm est
For now, to make all this work, Verse runs on a single thread
Actors and Blueprints will be in early versions of UE6. Eventually, these will be deprecated
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"Copyright (C) 2001 MilleniumFault Do not reproduce this document anywhere without the permission of the author."
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Task: Build the pre-generation infrastructure and wire the game to load pre-generated puzzles from Godot `.tres` Resource files at runtime instead of calling KenGen on-demand. The pre-generation system covers all 2,107 puzzle combinations (grid sizes 3×3 through 9×9, puzzle indices 0 through 300), but the Ralph loop should NOT run the actual pre-generation. The loop builds the code so the user can trigger pre-generation themselves by pressing a debug button in the Godot game. Read the full plan and domain glossary before starting: - `/home/picode/workdir/mathdoku/PLAN-PREGEN.md` — detailed implementation plan with all decisions - `/home/picode/workdir/mathdoku/CONTEXT.md` — domain glossary and terminology - `/home/picode/workdir/mathdoku/docs/adr/0001-pregen-puzzle-storage.md` — ADR for the storage decision Work through the plan in this order: 1. **PuzzlePack.gd** — Create the minimal `Resource` subclass (`class_name PuzzlePack`) with a single `@export var puzzles: Array` property. Place at `res://data/PuzzlePack.gd`. 2. **PuzzleGenerator.gd (autoload)** — Create the pre-generation orchestrator at `res://data/PuzzleGenerator.gd`. Implements: - Work tracker (PENDING / IN_PROGRESS / DONE for each of 2,107 puzzle combinations) - 7 worker threads, each with a "home" grid size, transitioning to a shared work queue when done - Per-size file Mutexes for safe `.tres` writes - Work queue Mutex for safe tracker access - `start_generation()`, `pause_generation()`, `resume_generation()` - Progress/status reporting methods for UI labels - `.tres` file initialization (arrays of 301 `{"success": false}` placeholders) - Registered as an autoload in `project.godot`
genAI coding agent harness output on a terminal screen: Confirmed. Next button hidden at index 300 for any size. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ### Question 17: Files that need to be modified Let me compile the full list of files that will need changes: 1. PuzzlePack.gd (new) — Resource class with puzzles: Array 2. PuzzleGenerator.gd (new) — Autoload singleton for pre-generation logic (threads, work tracker, mutex management) 3. main_menu_with_animations.gd — Add debug button, pause button, 15 debug labels, wire them to PuzzleGenerator 4. main_menu_with_animations.tscn — Add the button and label nodes to the scene 5. board_selection.gd — Change max page from 9 to 29, load puzzles from .tres instead of KenGen, keep KenGen fallback 6. example.gd — Load puzzles from .tres in _on_next_pressed, hide Next button at index 300, strip puzzle/solution from save data 7. res://data/ directory (new) — Contains the 7 .tres files after generation 8. project.godot — Register PuzzleGenerator as an autoload Are there any other files I'm missing? Let me also check if there are any other places that reference KenGen or puzzle generation that I might have overlooked. The test_seed.gd file uses KenGen directly but that's a test file — no changes needed there. The two main files that use KenGen for gameplay are board_selection.gd and example.gd, both already on the list. I also notice example.gd lines 315-316 store puzzle and solution in the save file — those need to be removed per our agreement. The file list looks complete. Anything else you want to add or change before I write up the full plan?
The concept of combinations, linked attacks that can't be blocked when they're timed correctly, came about more or less by accident. Street Fighter II's designers didn't quite mean for it to happen, but players of the original game eventually found out that certain moves naturally flowed into other ones. Their fellow players got to enjoy a rude awakening not long afterward -- a gamer's first encounter with Street Fighter combos usually went something like, "*%$#! Why the $!#& can't I block that &$@%?!"
First play of marathon mode results screenshot. Animated forest background. Score 218856 Line 150 Playtime 07'57"36
Tetris The Grand Master 4 - ABSOLUTE EYE -
Mathdoku Getaway screenshot with the title at the top of the screen, a 4x4 puzzle almost half done showing some candidate digits and cell values with two completed cages, and the calculator on the left showing how it can be used to help plan out cage entries. The numpad on the right is in candidate mode with the digits 5-9 grayed out because they don't fit on the puzzle.
A boy and a girl reaching towards each other while flying with giant wings. They are both the same character, Asagi
the agent's summary of the code it wrote: The calculator.gd script has been created and committed. Here's a summary of what it does: State variables: - operation — an enum value (NONE, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION) - digits — an Array[int] storing entered digits Behavior: - Digit buttons (1-9): Append to the digits array. Limited to 5 digits for addition/multiplication, and 2 digits for subtraction/division. When the limit is reached, new digits replace the oldest (via pop_front() + append()). - Operation buttons: Set the current operation. If subtraction or division is selected and more than 2 digits exist, the array is trimmed to the last 2. - Clear: Empties digits, resets operation to NONE, sets both labels to "0". - Delete: Removes the most recently entered digit (pop_back()), then updates labels. - Digits label: Shows digits joined by the operation symbol (+, -, x, ÷). With no operation, digits are concatenated as a single number. - Answer label: Shows the calculated result. With no operation, mirrors the digits label. With only one digit and an operation, shows just that digit. Division with a remainder shows "ERROR".
empty 6x6 mathdoku puzzle with a whole calculator on the left hand side, set up specifically as a handy calculation aid for the game rather than as a normal calculator. it's limited to 5 digits for addition and multiplication, and 2 for subtraction and division, due to the maximum cage size for each operation. the C and CE buttons also work as expected to clear everything or delete the most recent digit. There's a 0 key that does nothing and will be removed soon
a very busy 6x6 mathdoku puzzle
" What about programming? People understandably care far less about the structural foundation of games than they do about art, design, audio, etc, but where are the lines drawn? You would be hard pressed to find a programmer that doesn't see technical value in AI. Especially in the era of purposefully utterly enshittified search engines, the accessibility of learning programming topics with AI by contrast is undeniable. If ethically trained, local, energy-efficient solutions emerge here as tools to help programmers wade through increasingly complicated software, that has the possibility of being a very good thing. Reality has taken a different turn though. Far from "a helpful tool," we are to believe we should offload our entire careers to farms of AI "agents" and not even look at the code. A higher level of abstraction, I'm told."
programmer art board selection screen with a green checkmark emoji marking completed puzzles. functional, but wack
Mathdoku Getaway logo. Light blue background of a small, Kame House-sized bit of land with silhouettes of two palm trees. The word Mathdoku is black in all caps in a varsity font, and the word Getaway is underneath it in a modern, blocky dark blue font with italics. The name both describes the game and my motivation for making it: I need to escape the miserable living situation I'm in. Overall, the logo is pretty weak, being Programmer Art, but I made it with my own two hands using paint.net. If the game ever earns enough revenue for it, I'll pay someone to make a decent logo.
kombucha girl meme. local-only LLM for coding/STEM work? kinda good! *any* LLM for literally anything else? ewwww, gross! we don't want that slop
a mathdoku puzzle: Puzzle (1-indexed): Cage Target: 2 | Op: / Cells: [(2, 1), (3, 1)] Cage Target: 8 | Op: + Cells: [(4, 1), (4, 2), (3, 2)] Cage Target: 6 | Op: + Cells: [(1, 2), (1, 1)] Cage Target: 10 | Op: + Cells: [(1, 4), (1, 3), (2, 3), (2, 4)] Cage Target: 9 | Op: + Cells: [(4, 3), (4, 4), (3, 4)] Cage Target: 3 | Op: none Cells: [(2, 2)] Cage Target: 1 | Op: none Cells: [(3, 3)] solution A: [4, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4] solution B: [4, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 4, 3, 2] (there should only be one solution, like Highlander)
black KingSong S18 electric unicycle with a suspension (that you stand on) with both pedals unfolded and sticking out
yuna's dance
AOC holding up a jar of brown rural "drinking water" in a neighborhood that now contains an AI data center
goofy in Adventures in the Magic Kingdom saying I'll fuckin do it again
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a 9x9 calcudoku board. As I live and breathe... I don't know where to draw the line between "the code was mostly LLM-generated" and "a vibe coder doesn't have the skills I used to make this actually work" because the puzzle generator the LLM originally tried to pass off, frankly, sucked, and there were all sorts of issues I used my brain to solve. I mean, used my brain to come up with a follow-up prompt to solve. what even is software engineering anymore? requirements gathering? having quality standards? because like, I'm not sitting here typing out code anymore. I'm seeing a hallucinated API get used, and I'm editing it into the actual current API. I'm getting strongly-worded "no, THIS is how it works" sorts of output from the LLM, which I know off top is completely wrong, and I'm gleefully ignoring it, throwing out the output it led to, and inserting my own. what decides who codes, me or the LLM, is how long I think it would take me to type manually vs how long the LLM would take to crunch the numbers before generating the output. but... the output is actually usually right enough to use, one way or another. a couple years ago, when I was using LLM for coding study, I saved a set of leetcode questions that I could not finagle the cloud-based model into solving. I thought I had found "AI-proof" problems. but running those same questions by the LLM that is limited by my GPU's VRAM? not only is it solving them correctly the first time, the solutions are actually performant C++, trading storage space for speed. This game might be playable within like... a day or two. I can't believe I'm saying that
"I go in the pool when I want to cool down, why can't my truck?"
Programmer, Interrupted. A software engineer puts real time and effort building a mind map of how the software works in the context of his next task and recent work that was done and discussions that were had around the pros and cons and such. Really getting into the weeds. Guy walks over and mentions something about an email. Mind map disappears. Next frame, he starts rebuilding it from square 1 again.
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