Awwwww! Thank you!!

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Needs to be #1

That's usually the problem I run into with that method I get down to the diamond layer and I end up in large crisscrossed ravines or open chasms and when you can't see the walls on all four sides of you the method starts to break down. But it still works faster and easier than anything else I know of without using viewers like the one in the video.

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^Auger8:
I always preferred the old maze trick of only marking the walls on the right side or in Minecraft's case only put your torches on the the right hand side of the tunnels then you can keep them to your left to find your way back out.

That's the way I do it after I saw someone doing it in a video. Before then I used dirt or cobble to leave markers. I'd make it three high with one on the side pointing out. Even then I still got lost because I didn't stop and put down a marker often enough. Putting torches on the right is so much faster because I'm putting up torches anyway. I haven't gotten lost since doing that. I have gotten so deep in large caves/mines that it was just quicker to dig an exit than to back track the way I came in.

>> ^Auger8:

I always preferred the old maze trick of only marking the walls on the right side or in Minecraft's case only put your torches on the the right hand side of the tunnels then you can keep them to your left to find your way back out.


That's the way I do it after I saw someone doing it in a video. Before then I used dirt or cobble to leave markers. I'd make it three high with one on the side pointing out. Even then I still got lost because I didn't stop and put down a marker often enough. Putting torches on the right is so much faster because I'm putting up torches anyway. I haven't gotten lost since doing that. I have gotten so deep in large caves/mines that it was just quicker to dig an exit than to back track the way I came in.

I always preferred the old maze trick of only marking the walls on the right side or in Minecraft's case only put your torches on the the right hand side of the tunnels then you can keep them to your left to find your way back out.

Uh, mazing.

I think it's more of a statement on the nature of intelligence. Many of the behaviors we view to be intelligence are really just emergent properties of iterative algorithms implemented by simple machines. We shouldn't assume intelligence holds some privileged status.

There was a fun paper a while back on how this could be explained by the use of memristors in a dynamically stable circuit. >> ^Sagemind:

So, does that prove intelligence or just the will to survive?!

Put her in a glass maze for WEEKS of entertainment.

>> ^renatojj:

When I was a kid I played with Construx, anyone remember that? Not legos, I despised legos, they're for babies. Construx had these knots that really hurt your fingers, specially when you had to snap them off. Toys should hurt you, the pain makes you stronger, helps you grow. Or something.
Now legos are everywhere, Construx is nowhere to be found, and you can build your own marble maze out of legos.
What is wrong with the world?


They're both baby toys. All hail the Erector Set!!

>> ^renatojj:

When I was a kid I played with Construx, anyone remember that? Not legos, I despised legos, they're for babies. Construx had these knots that really hurt your fingers, specially when you had to snap them off. Toys should hurt you, the pain makes you stronger, helps you grow. Or something.
Now legos are everywhere, Construx is nowhere to be found, and you can build your own marble maze out of legos.
What is wrong with the world?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx

Discontinued in '88, revived and discontinued again in '97. I can't say I'm surprised, either, considering how far Legos have come, what with all the motors, sensors and programmable stuff.

I had a ton of Construx as a kid, enough that at one point I built a "robot" that was roughly my own height. I use the scare quotes because there were no motors or other forms of self-motion. It was articulated, but I had to move it myself.

I had Legos, too, but not as much. I also had Lincoln Logs and Tinkertoy, both inherited from my uncles, so I guess I had a lot of construction toys. I probably spent more time building things in the yard with sticks, rocks and dirt than with any of these toys, though.

You gotta lego of these silly quips; they're not funny anymore.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

A Maze ing

When I was a kid I played with Construx, anyone remember that? Not legos, I despised legos, they're for babies. Construx had these knots that really hurt your fingers, specially when you had to snap them off. Toys should hurt you, the pain makes you stronger, helps you grow. Or something.

Now legos are everywhere, Construx is nowhere to be found, and you can build your own marble maze out of legos.

What is wrong with the world?

Sweet this was way better than the image I had in my head from reading the title, I love the Dragon Maze! Awesome work.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

A Maze ing


I see what you did there!

A Maze ing

>> ^JiggaJonson:

>> ^shuac:
>> ^JiggaJonson:
Danarys is not supposed to get the unsullied until the third book... -_-
Part of why I've liked the series so far is the fact that they followed the books so closely. I'm gonna be disappointed if they stray from that formula.

Christ, there's only been one season so far. How could you get used to that aspect so quickly? Especially since it isn't true: toward the end of season 1, they dip into book 2 a little bit (Arya and Gendry joining Yoren for their trip to the wall)...so I'm just gonna call a little bullshit on you. Just a tinsy bit, mind you.
Besides...all the books after book 1 do not have enough going on to warrant their own 10 episode arc. Not like book 1 had. So in short: they are absolutely picking & choosing the best story elements of book 2 and 3 for season 2. Live with it. Or don't.
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I trust the show runners to understand that to have, for example, the red wedding in season 2 would be too early. That's probably a season 3 storyline. But as far as Daenerys goes: what does she actually do for all of book 2? Not that much: she travels the desert, goes to Qarth, and walks through that magic room maze thing. Yaaaawn.
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My big concern is getting HBO to see the series through to the end without canceling it. That's the real cliffhanger.

I'm sorry, bullshit on what, exactly? That they didn't stick to the story line of the book in the first season?

The only glaring example of that, I can think of in the first season, is when Caitlyn visits Jamie Lanister at the camp and gets him to admit pushing Brann out of the window. That and I guess the part you mentioned. But, to be fair, Arya's last chapter in Game of Thrones ends with him cutting off her hair and telling her to go with him; the show shows her being called to the cart right after that happened. That insignificant difference is far cry from introducing an entirely new set of characters/plot element from a different book a whole season too soon.
Find me more glaring examples of not closely following the plot and we'll have something to discuss, until then...
throws bullshit back @shuac


They are doing their best to keep each season within the book it's supposed to parallel but the big issue is the the books get bigger. A Clash of Kings is longer than A Game of Thrones by a bit and A Storm of Swords is substantially longer than both of those. *Spoiler Alert* To be able to fit the red wedding into the end of season 3 they are going to need to get started with a bit of book 3 at the end of the 2nd season. These guys have done a fantastic job of adapting season one so I've still got very high hopes for future seasons.