Does anybody know how to play bottom right? Like did anybody figure it out yet?
You just tap it and hope for the best
Minesweeper is ridiculously simple, and actually pretty easy as well once you learn the patterns. You won’t ever win every single game, because there is an element of chance that can crop up, but for the most part it is a very, very simple logic game.
There are two rules:
A number represents how many mines there are in the 8 tiles surrounding the number
Don’t click mines
That’s it. That’s the whole game. The rest is figuring out the patterns to determine which tiles have mines. For example, let’s use a piece of the game above. Look at the tile I’ve drawn a red border around.
There is one mine surrounding this tile, and all but one surrounding tile is already revealed. Therefore, this square must be a mine (you can right click to add a flag):
Moving on from there, look at this tile:
There are two mines surrounding it. Only two surrounding tiles are unrevealed, and we already know the one on top is a mine. So this one is also a mine:
Now we have this tile:
There are two mines surrounding it, but there are three unrevealed tiles next to it. However, we already determined that two out of the three are mines, so that third one is safe to click! This will reveal another number. Since I’m not actually playing a real game and am just going off a picture, I don’t know what that number would be. But you can continue the logic from there.
There are some tougher scenarios, though. For example, again from the picture above:
Where do we go from here? There are no immediately obvious moves like before, but you can still figure out what goes where. Look at this part:
There are three mines bordering the 3. One is already marked, but where do the other two go? Well, because of the 1 at the top, we know that only one of those two mines can be in this section:
Leaving this one as definitely a mine:
We also know that since the third mine in this section must be in one of the two remaining squares, and there is only one mine bordering the 1, this square is safe to click!
And so are these two at the bottom, since there are now two known mines bordering that 2:
I could go on, there are a lot of patterns of shapes and numbers that you begin to recognize quite easily the more you play. All it comes down to is using the numbers in combination with each other to figure everything out. You will definitely run into a lot of games where you hit a roadblock and can’t progress using logic alone. You’ll run into games where you lose on the second click while trying to open up a space big enough determine anything at all. You’ll misclick during a really good streak and want to throw your laptop across the room. But that’s just the nature of the game sometimes.
Anyway this has gone on long enough so here are my stats from my last computer, before I bought the new one, and my current set,all on the Advanced difficulty level.
TL;DR I fucking love Minesweeper thank you for coming to my TED Talk
story concept of the day: a “medical mystery of the week” serial set in a world with monsters and superpowers and mutants and aliens
It would be like. One part comedy, one part drama, two parts world-building. The hospital has an aquatic wing for mermaids and sea monsters. How do you treat someone who has telepathic influenza? We’ll figure it out, I guess!
Some storyline concepts:
—a woman from a telepathic race based on anglerfish shows up in the ER in a panic because her mate, who is tiny and permanently attached to her body, has stopped communicating through their telepathic link
—the air-breathing doctors have to take over the aquatic ward after a mysterious illness spreads through the water-breathing staff
—an ambulance brings in an unconscious alien from a species totally outside of medical literature, the staff scramble to save their life while flying blind
—the first outbreak of lycanthropy in 50 years occurs following protests against the vaccine, the hospital is quarantined while the on-staff pharmacists try to control the situation
If I write this, I’d want it to be like. Scrubs meets WTNV.
Character concept: a demon who works in the ER because their ability to “steal” souls means they can bring back patients who are medically dead but still repairable if you can just get them breathing again.
He has some insanely generic sounding name like Doctor Fred and has that “snake tongue, fangs, ram horns, red skin, yellow eyes, long tail, black bat wings” thing going on
He’s like 35 and the object of unrepentant longing from most of the interns and junior staff. He’s kind and patient and great with kids and has the cutest hiccupy laugh and is absolutely the guy you want overseeing your training because he never yells. Everyone wants to marry Doctor Fred.
It’s a running joke that he’s probably a literal Incubus but there’s no aura or magic at play, he’s just got a perfect personality.
I think I’m naming this story “doctors and demons” for now
Another character is just. Nessie. The Loch Ness monster is here. She works at the front desk for the aquatic ward and pokes her head out of the water to pass notes and files to the other doctors.
One of the aquatic doctors is Doctor Lagoon, who is the creature from the black lagoon. He’s very intimidating but can be immediately be calmed down by bringing up his human wife or their daughter. There’s a picture of him holding his wife bridal style on his desk.
The actual protagonist is a human woman who considers herself totally normal but actually has SOME sort of powerful telekinesis that she constantly explains away as coincidence.
There’s a character named Cadaver or Caddie who is a living corpse that constantly regenerates. She’s vital to the hospital for organ transplants but an absolute nightmare for the staff because she does things like host speed dating for zombies in the morgue and eat everyone lunch out of the staff room fridge.
Also I think the protagonist’s name is Jane Doe or Doctor Doe, as a joke on her being average but… not at all.
I think the trio of main characters are Doctor Fred (emergency), Doctor Doe (in-patient) and an alien surgeon named Doctor Hive, who is close to an insectoid Cthulhu. A running joke is her ability to keep track of her hundreds of children but not the names of any of their fathers or her coworkers except her very favorites.
Children’s art in media: fully-colored, stylized but recognizabke figures with backgrounds and aesthetically textured and messy crayon coloring that
Children’s art in real life: an anguished disembodied head floating on one side, a massive sea of amorphous red scribbles taking up half the paper, ‘SAM’ written in enormous shaky letters overlapping everything, partial figure of a dinosaur abandoned before drawing the legs
in a movie this would be a fully-colored crayon drawing of a ranger standing in front of an arch that said “Jurassic Park” but instead it is two dinosaur skulls floating in the abyss while a ranger’s head is swallowed by his own enormous speech bubble and I adore it
Hey @thebibliosphere can you come get your husband he’s taken up residence on my door it seems.
You should invite him in and offer him a beverage. That’s the polite thing to do when people come to visit you @ahzuri Just keep him away from the lights
I would but apparently the children are scared of the giant moth idk
“The Infinity Gauntlet, except it’s toe socks?” and then I woke up. That was the whole dream. Me literally saying that one sentence.
Haaaaaang on op I got a relevant pic
Bruh tf…..who commissioned this and why are the toes like that instead of a regular shoe….
I looked it up and this is actually a historical foot reliquary, which means it contains the remains/bones of a foot of a saint or a historical figure or some kind of a relic and I’m
“Historical foot reliquary”
This is what people are talking about when they say truth is stranger than fiction okay
Make a Vampire character who’s lived through several waves of the common language’s development and can’t let go if certain gramatical habbits from different time eras.
So like, thou ist a horrid creature, an absolute cur, but go off i guess
… can i use that phrase irl?
Absolutely you can and I encourage more uses of similar phrases that just completely fuck up the chronology of the english langauge. I wanna hear 15th century english mixed with surfer speak mixed with current age internet lingo like all the time.
Like this? Well my dude, seems like a weasel hath not such a deal of splean as you’re toss’d with. Chill already, you’re not valid.
You are an unrighteous, bastardly gullion. Heaven truly
knows that thou art false as hell. When you die, I will face God and walk
backwards into hell just so that I can beat your ass in the afterlife too.
I love the idea of a vampire who’s language travels back in time as they get pissed.
im begging yall someone commission me for these because i have a memory of a goldfish on shrooms and will not remember to do so otherwise
Norse mythology fails to convey the sense of terror that must have hung over Asgard every time Loki was gone for longer than eight months and three weeks
Loki, holding up the newest baby Lion King-style: IT’S!!!!! A WOLF!!!”
underneath the rock: *dozens of creatures from all over Nine Realms muttering quietly, exchanging money*
I love how this assumes that even tho he had Sleipnir as a mare and I doubt he was in human form when he had Fenrir or any other of his beast kids, that the gestation period would still be of that of a human?
