fish
@fish
SHELF OF CRIME NOVELS These shelves are overburdened with books from the same series. You see the name "Dick Mullen" over and over.

YOU – Look through the display of books.

SHELF OF CRIME NOVELS You see: "Dick Mullen on the Job", "Get Me Mullen!", "Dick Mullen and the Murder in the Orchard", "Crimes for Cascading Style Sheets", "The Sordid Affair of Dick Mullen", "Dauntless Dick"...

REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] – Hold on, what was that?

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) – Among the monotonous rows of crime fiction, a large book catches your eye -- something other than Dick Mullen? It can't be...

1. - Hell yeah.
2. - Pick up the book.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS "Radiocomputer Wizards: Crimes for Cascading Style Sheets." The cover of this heavy tome features some esoteric language.

LOGIC [Challenging: Failure] – You're not sure what to make of this.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] – Typical binoclard nonsense. Toss this thing in the trash!

1. - Open the book.
2. - At least it's not Dick Mullen. (Open the book.)

YOU – Open the book.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Flipping through the book you find a number of sections on what appears to be a radiocomputer language. A compilation of achievable programming "crimes" makes up nearly half of the book.

HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] – Crimes? I don't like the sound of that.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS There's a chapter on tape computer imitation. Some programmers tried to replicate the visual interface of the machine onto a radiocomputer.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] – A tape computer was a folding mechanism of rollers and ferrotape ribbons, compact enough to be portable. One could write directly on the tape using a special chemical solution. The machine would then analyse the handwriting, perform operations and project output onto a white screen.

+5 XP: gained experience.

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] – It was a beautiful, delicate thing.

1. - Where can I get my hands on a tape computer?
2. - Hold on -- "was"?

ENCYCLOPEDIA – Only three prototypes of the tape computer were made. All were destroyed during the Antecentennial Revolution.

PAIN THRESHOLD [Easy: Success] – Ouch.

INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] – There has to be a fourth prototype out there...

1. - Continue reading.

YOU – Continue reading.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS You flip forward a few pages until you come upon a chapter titled 'Advanced Radiocomputer Development and Infra-Materialist Theory'.

RHETORIC [Easy: Success] – Now we're talking!

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS When a community has achieved a sufficiently high degree of revolutionary fervour, infra-materialists believe that second-level effects may be observed.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS At this second level, certain hyper-revolutionary individuals may develop the ability to extend their thoughts into material space and vice versa. But what does this mean for the Mazovian programmer? Graadian essayist Klara Semenova claims that these ideas are inherent to one another...

ENDURANCE [Medium: Failure] – Your vision starts to blur...

1. - No, I want to finish reading...
2. - This might be too much for me.

REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Failure] – It's too late -- your eyes are already closed and your arms stop working. The book slips from your hands, landing sadly on the bookshop floor.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Oh well. The book will still be here, if you want to continue...

1. - Yeah, that's not happening.
2. - For another time.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Challenging: Success] – As you turn to leave, some small text on the back of the book catches your eye.

CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS STEAL THIS CODE

LOGIC [Medium: Failure] – Whatever that means.

1. - Leave.

YOU – [Leave.]




blackle
@blackle

desktop firefox and chrome only
click below for hints and solutions

used these models:

10-11-2022 - updated the colours in the tile matching puzzle to be more colourblind friendly.

10-11-2022 - I've heard reports that the lights on game doesn't properly detect completion on some browsers. I can't reproduce it on edge, chrome, or firefox on windows, or chrome and firefox on linux. One person said that zooming in or out can fix it, so please try this. Worst case scenario, right click on the purple button and delete the element, this will reveal the clickable button underneath.

view hints/solutions

step 1:

hintlook for inconsistencies, and click on 'em!
solution click the screw in the bottom left corner, then click the hole just below the "blackle mori 2022" line

step 2:

hintturn on all the lights
solution this is the classic lights out puzzle, except instead of turning off lights, you need to turn them on. you can follow this guide to solve the puzzle, just invert the light-on-edness of all the instructions.

step 3:

hintonce you solve the sudoku puzzle, consider where the numbers in the circled cells could go...
solution completing the sudoku puzzle gives the code 61644, enter this into the combination lock on the top right

step 4:

hintalso called picross, nonograms can be tricky. try to get most of the left side done before moving onto the right
solution this is how the nonogram will look when solved:

step 5:

hintpretty much the same as step 3. try your best!
solution completing the sudoku puzzle gives the code 94427

step 6:

hinttry to figure out which tiles have to go in the corners first. this will whittle down the possibilities for where the rest of the tiles can go.
solution the completed tile matching puzzle looks like this:


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

I'm a heavy Twitter user, have been for years; you can trust me on what I say here. I'm making an effort to use Cohost differently. Many of the parts of myself I express on here are ones I don't have a chance to express on Twitter.

take a while to look around, get a sense of the feeling, the gestalt of the site. how people talk and behave. this place is different, and we should all be mindful of it. it's healthier. people on here are kind. I'm not sure I've seen a single attempt to dunk on another Cohost user.

no snowflake is responsible for the flood. the activation queue helps, and the different mechanics of the site help. but we must all do our own part to prevent Eternal September from coming to Cohost.

much of Twitter culture is unhealthy. take a deep breath, consider how you and others act on there. consider the parts of the culture that you might intentionally choose leave behind, for your own sake and others'. this is not an Exodus in which we must carry your whole culture with us on our backs, though we can certainly bring the good parts.

be conscious of your behavior. be kind. give folks the benefit of the doubt. Unlike much of Twitter, Cohost is not a battle. It is more like a community garden. Take care not to tread on the plants; many of them aren't in containers, and the paths aren't bordered by stones. Carelessness can easily crush things that we would not want to kill, were we aware we were doing so.

it is also important that we, as cohost users, welcome people to the garden. It's a lovely place, and people should enjoy it, and feel welcome to start their own plots, as long as the mint stays in containers, and they aren't spraying Roundup everywhere.