AT THE BREAK ROOM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™
Having had nothing to eat since breakfast, you follow the directions to the break room. Their break room, that is. Although it's beginning to feel otherwise, you don't actually work here.
Among the usual sorts of break room things you indeed see a cake, which appears to have been sitting out all day long There is also a nicely melted tub of ice cream. I'm sure it was all delicious several hours ago.
With the stale cake detour getting you no closer to the fun inside the ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™, you give up and exit the way you came in. You make your way back to the elevator. Or try to. It's a big place, this.
A juvenile desire to explore forbidden territory? A reluctance to ask for directions? Disorientation? Hunger for better giveaways? One of these could explain it, the decision to try one last door. The door that opens to reveal a stair leading down...
Descend, BENEATH THE ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™... YES, IT'S FINALLY READY!.
Oh, I've decided to put the rest of the cheap stuff at "Level 0" - should have done that from the start. I mean, how many people who aren't "Level 0" are missing many of these games?
Good luck! :)
The real disappointment is that there isn't any pie!
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Hmm. There was pie in the refrigerator. Does that work? :)
Good luck... :)
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the cake is a lie 🍰😛
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Imaginary dried up cake, what can you do? :)
Good luck... :)
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I counted 111, so there were going to be a few to try till I got the correct one
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For various reasons they stopped at umm... COPERNICIUM. I may be able to explain why later. :)
Good luck! :)
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Thanks again, fiftykyu! Nothing wrong with hours-old cake :P
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Oh I dunno, this one looked pretty dry. Nobody even put the cover back on. You know how it goes, when it's everyone's job, it's nobody's job... :)
Good luck! :)
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I am disappointed in my foolishness. I tried that one early on but apparently added an "L" in it by mistake.
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Ouch! Glad you noticed it... :)
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I got lost so many times, even after I started doing it methodically lmao. It's a lot of fun tho, and hella rewarding when I hit a goldmine like this at the end!
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I mean... I'm soooo disappointed, pleaser don't make me endure any more of this hell
Whoever you are, you didn't see anything
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Gotcha ;)
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Oh, by the way, that thing I didn't see, you may discover the point soon... So probably keep doing that for the next part... :)
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Thanks for the heads up, I already had my spreasheet open ;) I'm kinda stuck on the puzzle tho, even tho the answer seems obvious (that cheeky hint doesn't help either lmao)
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Hmm, not sure where you're stuck, so I dunno what to hint... :( If you got to the part with three questions, I assume you'll try
1234with whatever you found... But if you're stuck somewhere else, I'm not sure... :( I mean, it's the same puzzle over and over again, so whatever you did to get here, keep doing that. :)
I did go back and add some better hints to the tutorial, although anyone who reached this point should be well past needing it. Until you reach the final puzzle, all these other puzzles are the exact same thing.
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I'm still stuck in the THE SADISTICALLY OVERSIZED MAZE-LIKE FORGOTTEN UNDERGROUND STORAGE AREA OF DISAPPOINTMENT™. I guess I just need to do a proper run through again but I don't feel like going through 600 giveaways again right now lmao. I'll get back to it later
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Ahh, yeah, it's a bit ridiculous in there... If it helps, you start on the bottom row of a 24x24 grid. And if you find any shimmering blue portals, don't worry about drawing them - it's just the pity wormhole. :)
From the last part I guess you already know why you're making a map, so good luck when you can force yourself to go through it again... :)
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Not sure it's gold just yet... :)
Andf this is anything like their older games, you'll need a brand new expensive ultra-computer to play it... I never had to turn down so many graphical things as that original Metro 2033... :)
Good luck! :)
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Yeah their games are pretty demanding. And with reason, they look absolutely gorgeous! I can run the redux versions on max settings tho so I should be able to at least decently run this one (here's hoping, I can't afford another upgrade lmao)
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I should probably reinstall some of that old stuff, see how it runs today... :) But I'm still resisting the cpu upgrade, want to see some post-spectre/meltdown/whatever chips for sale... :)
Bonus points if AMD manage not to suck for a couple more years... Cost, performance, things should be great. Hooray for competition! :)
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Wow that was awesome!
I love chemistry, thanks!
I'm lvl 7 and i don't have most of these games xD
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I keep forgetting not everyone is a bundle junkie... :)
The cheap stuff is all games where I had oodles of spare keys, so even if one key doesn't work, I've got backup... :)
Good luck! :)
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You have too much time on your hands. And I have too many of those games.
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You might think so, but... :) Even with two extra days, I'm really cutting it close... :( I should have taken the whole week...
Good luck! :)
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Clearly, the box was full of Half-Life 3 and the label was smudged. That's why there was nothing inside.
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Well, I guess it could have been, but I couldn't find it in the giveaway list... :(
Good luck! :)
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If it was pulverized, it should have combusted itself. Pure hafnium catches fire at contact with air.
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Well, this was a way to make people hunt the missing thing, without regard for what sort of thing it might be. Something easily found in a list with google. Completely arbitrary. It could have been Pink Floyd singles, dog breeds, anything. :) Well, maybe a box of dogs wouldn't be such a good idea, but you know what I mean. :)
But, just for fun, let's forget about that. Assume the pulverised box was the same as the boxes in the rest of the warehouse. So it would have been "a small box labelled HAFNIUM".
This is one of those rare cases where I actually thought about the words a bit since like you say, some of these things are impossible. :)
It isn't "a small box of HAFNIUM". It's just labelled HAFNIUM. Could be anything in there. :)
Maybe the original box was destroyed long ago, and generations of warehouse workers have congratulated themselves on cleverly getting away with something, every time some fool re-destroys it? Probably been nothing but packing peanuts and scrap for 50 years... :)
Or, I dunno, maybe it's where they keep their alcohol, cocaine, reefer, porn... Who knows? :)
Once upon a time I remember hearing about a prank. Someone had placed a box up on an inconvenient shelf, far out of the way, and written just the right thing on it to ensure nobody ever bothered with it. Holiday decorations for some minor holiday nobody ever celebrated or decorated for? I don't recall...
But, of course, eventually someone was bored enough to check it out. Apparently the contents that had been carefully sealed inside were quite ripe, so to speak. Glad I was only hearing about it... :)
Good luck! :)
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Is this cake made of the ingredients from that warehouse? Who knows how many times those boxes were pulverised and changed by something else. I'm not sure I want to eat such cake :D
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Good point. Probably the main ingredient is disappointment, you can be sure that's geniune... :)
Good luck! :)
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Yay, a cake!
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Hmmm, I have no idea what that is... :) But good luck! :)
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Thanks for notification! My script is ready too ^_^
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Ehhhh, Script?!
Dang, I've been typing all this crap by hand. I decided rather than make something, it would be faster to just start typing. One week later I get the distinct impression I had chosen poorly... :)
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Sorry, I'm a programmer, so if it's 1 hour to write script vs 5 minutes to do manually, I write script. And even so, I finished previous parts manually. It took way more time and efforts to do it, so this time I knew what to do.
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Yes, I think that was the correct choice. :) Only a former programmer here, sadly... Nowadays, hmm...
I can remember enough regular expressions to keep out of trouble, but any real language I'm limited to reading and tinkering... If I have to write anything from scratch I've got to re-learn it every single time. Fortunately it doesn't come up much. :)
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you forgot to mention this time that the game is not released yet ;3
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Disappointing, isn't it?
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Oops! Sorry about that. :) It's
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tya :3
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Whole thing is finished now, took long enough... :)
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I screwed up my beloved spreadsheet: I didn't make a note of Bromine! How disappointing... >.<
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Nooooooo! Not the Bromine! :)
Good luck! :)
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I'm enjoying this, haha! Thanks for the puzzles! :3 That's also a lot if gibs...
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And you've not even seen half of it... I should have made the whole thing last 4 weeks, at the rate I'm adding stuff people will only have 1 week to solve the first half before the giveaways end... :(
Good luck! :)
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Thanks for notifying us! I'll be sure to try and have fun in solving this one as well, haha! :D
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It might be difficult, but if you get lucky you might spot some fun, somewhere... :)
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Finally solved, was fun, but I am only level 4 - will the upcoming part be lvl 5+ too?
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Unless I add an unplanned higher-level part to the very end, the rest is hmm, let me check...
The rest of the giveaways are all Level 0-1, hope you can see them soon... :)
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Sounds great :) Thank you!
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Well, don't thank me yet, you'll still have to solve it... And it's going to take at least one more day of typing to connect everything... :( So for now, just imagine being disappointed, I guess... :)
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But that's the game? Better one day of puzzling than one day of playing fortnite .. not really disappointed yet :)
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Just wandered through 17x17 ... and now we are facing a 24x24 maze?
Well ... here I go.
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Yes, unfortunately... I suggest making a map, so if for some reason you need to walk through it again, it doesn't take too long...
Good luck in there... :)
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Cover me boys, I'm going in.
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Don't forget your map, it's a maze down there... :)
Good luck! :)
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"... wandering around for an hour trying to look busy". XD
I think it took me longer, slowly crossing out each chemical element one by one. ;)
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Ouch, hope it was worth it, at least when you reach the next part... The rest is all level 0-1... :)
Good luck somewhere or other! :)
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Yeah, it was fun! I have seen some elements I did not know even existed (don't tell that to my chemistry teacher). ;D
As for the other part... you are sadist. O_O
I started to make a map, but the paper was too small so I had to completely redraw it. XD
It's huge! You have put a lot of effort into this! Thank you! :3
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Glad someone's having fun anyway! :)
Oh, just in case it's not obvious - there isn't any secret meaning behind the games or the lists of stuff. They could have been Beatles songs or Nobel Prize winners or anything... :)
I needed a list with a specific number of items we could all google, to find what's missing. So if I needed 20 things for some area, I'd find a list of 21 whatevers, and hold one back to be the answer. Some clever person could have connected them all somehow, made one more layer of puzzle with them, but I'm not clever enough for that. :)
Sending people through an endless stream of bundle leftovers, I suppose it wasn't exactly kindness, but I had to suffer along with everyone... :)
Sorry about the paper, maybe I should have said where you are, the dimensions, something like that. So everyone knows where to start drawing... Oh well...
So, hmm, it was a lot of effort, but it was pretty pointless... :)
アー空動なり
そは、空動なり なり
:)
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もちろん ;)
Let me look a little longer and I will find some secret meaning, secret even to you. XD
Haha, I think that you have suffered the most. The realization must have been exhausting. ;)
Nono, like this it's perfect. I like to draw maps when playing, I have tons of them!! :D I just always start in the wrong place or take too small paper. ;)
I am ashamed, but kanji are too much for me yet... :/ And google translator wasn't of any big help. XD
I am guessing something about lost movement? o.O
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I suppose it could be like when someone finds all sorts of hidden meanings in a book, but the author says no, sorry, you're just making that up... :)
Glad you had fun with the maps! :) In the old days I always had to make a map but nowadays I'm too lazy for that sort of thing... Give me the auto-map please! :)
Oh, it's just random Utena song lyrics, couldn't help myself... :) Virtual Star Embryology / バーチャルスター発生学 hmm... google google... Aha, there's one.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQy16Ku2sq4 :) Beware the rabbit hole if you like that sort of thing... http://ohtori.nu/audiology/albums/02/01_Virtual_Star_Embryology.html :)
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Haha, yes, something like that. ;D
I am lazy too. ;) Oops didn't meant to suggest you are lazy! XP
Thank you! Thats very nice. I will put it on my "check list". :3
Also, I have completed this brutal maze! :D I need to answer the question, but I will leave it for tommorow as my brain is dead. XD
Have a great day and take some rest. ;)
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Yeah, I feel sorta obligated to go through and fix things up in the last part, it was quite rushed... :( Thought I'd get a day to relax after finally connecting the maze, but people were zooming through in an hour... Oh well. :)
I should put something in the giveaway descriptions, say something about the different games, but I'm pretty drained right now... Figure I could relax a bit... But if I wait too long nobody's going to read them... Sigh.
Oh, Utena is great, if you like that sort of thing I mean. It's probably not great for everyone. :)
Hope you got some rest too, thank you! :)
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Well, at least I can relax a bit before pushing on.
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That's a good plan, the next part is... Well... Hmm...
You know what fun looks like, right? Well, the next part is the opposite of that. :)
Good luck! :)
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Holy moly, I managed to reach the "BREAK ROOM OF DISAPPOINTMENT™"! :-)
To solve this puzzle I had to open so many sites in my browser, that Firefox was almost collapsing (buffering all the time).
I really can't believe how much effort (and giveaways) you put in this puzzle. Thank you, that was awesome and the games you giving away are awesome too! :-) Now I really need a break.
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Pretty exciting, eh? :) Well, maybe not. :)
Hope it didn't eat all your ram to get here... Unfortunately the next area is even bigger...
Well, there's probably a few awesome games in here, but it's 99% quantity, 1% quality... I don't have 1000 spare keys for pre-release fancy stuff... :)
Take a nice long break if you need it - think the rest of the giveaways run until the end of the month. :)
Good luck! :)
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i finally made it!!
i don't remember grinding through a puzzle like that...
luckyly enough i sensed from the beginning that a map was not so important as a periodic table and paint...
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Aha, good job! :) But if you keep going you might discover you needed a map after all... :)
Good luck! :)
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hope not... I am not going through that matrix again ;P
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Well, it's your choice... :) If you change your mind, you know where to find them... :)
If you use a spreadsheet it shouldn't take too long, probably. At least it's not a maze or anything... :)
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I have to say, I'm much happier with the cake at the Cake Factory. :)
But the Break Room here still looks well-furnished, so I'll sit here for a while!
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There could be something better to eat in the refrigerator, but it's not yours so better to leave it alone. :)
You could rest here for the next part! :) Good luck if you try for it! :)
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Oh it took a while....
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Good job! :) Just one more bit of misery left, and then one final disappointment... :)
Good luck! :)
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