Forum: Umineko
2010-10-21, 06:11
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It just occurred to me.
In Umineko parlance,...
It just occurred to me.
In Umineko parlance, "Witches" are mystery novel writers who pose puzzles to the readers, the Detectives. That much has been clear for quite a long time.
However, once...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-16, 01:50
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...Actually...
My forensic medicine textbook...
...Actually...
My forensic medicine textbook insists that the weight of head alone is sufficient to cause strangulation, and accompanies this with pictures of people who hanged themselves while...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-15, 16:58
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-15, 13:32
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The text in Ep1 is pretty clear on the shed...
The text in Ep1 is pretty clear on the shed shutter having both a built-in lock and a hinge for a padlock.
Mind you, in Ep4 Battler still hacked the built-in lock out, and did not check if the...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-12, 01:55
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-11, 14:04
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-11, 10:45
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-10, 02:04
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-09, 14:37
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-09, 14:13
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Minor flash of insight:
Umineko's solution...
Minor flash of insight:
Umineko's solution is actually a genetic algorithm to produce a mystery novel generator.
EDIT: By this example, it may be possible to find both X, Y and Z if it is known...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-09, 14:08
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While well reasoned, this point of view has a...
While well reasoned, this point of view has a flaw. Namely, we don't really know the sum.
In fact, Ep4 went out of it's way to obscure certain key things which would be most of the bits of the...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-08, 20:36
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It's a love-hate relationship, if you ask me....
It's a love-hate relationship, if you ask me. Reading Umineko has been an intellectually stimulating experience, however, it consumed more time than it might deserve. :)
Speaking of the red and...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-08, 20:20
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Forum: Umineko
2010-10-08, 20:07
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I think a distinction should be made between a...
I think a distinction should be made between a story that is complete and a story that is not. A mystery that misses large numbers of pages can by itself be Knox/Dine compliant - when available in...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-15, 10:06
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There are a lot of quite obvious arguments to...
There are a lot of quite obvious arguments to think that Ange wrote Ep3 and Ep4, starting with the special treatment Kyrie gets (she gets the right to speak when she otherwise wouldn't, survives a...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 18:19
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December 31, if my memory serves me right.
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December 31, if my memory serves me right.
Since you probably have much more of that stored in your memory cache right now than anyone else:
Can Ep3 be solved better with a culprit other...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 17:53
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 17:42
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 15:10
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 14:18
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 13:29
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 12:59
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-14, 11:43
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As a side note.
Remember the cups and coins...
As a side note.
Remember the cups and coins puzzle? Think of cups as fiction levels.
That is, story X which contains characters A and B also contains story Y (written by character A) in which,...
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-13, 10:43
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Forum: Umineko
2010-09-09, 20:19
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Pi, being an irrational and transcendental...
Pi, being an irrational and transcendental number, can never be known in full. However, certain physical theories assert that Pi, or numbers that can be expressed through Pi, or possess similar...
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