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Posted January 30, 2013
Splish splash!

Puddle, a challenging puzzler based around the physics of fluids and featuring nearly 50 cleverly designed levels, is available 60% off on GOG.com for Windows and Mac OS X. That's only $3.99 for the next 24 hours!

Physics-based puzzle games are aplenty these days. Some of them require you to sling objects at other objects. Some want you to cut things to drop other things on top of yet another thing. Yup, there's plenty of stuff to toy around with. But those are mostly solid objects. What's up with that? Wouldn't things be much more interesting if the object you try to control wasn't solid at all? Over 70% Earth is covered in fluid. Even we are composed of fluid in over 60%! Water is life! Water is fun! So, why is it so neglected in puzzle game design? Luckily, we have games like Puddle to correct that mistake.

Puddle challenges you with a nice selection of clever stages (including the GOG-exclusive, PC-only pixel level), with many different themes, types of fluids and goals. The early version of the game won the Independent Games Festival 2010 design award and since then evolved into a fully-fledged brain-twister with appealing, colorful graphics and innovative gameplay. If you're a puzzle fan in search of a new, original challenge, you simply cannot afford to miss this one!

Are you ready to get wet? Step into the Puddle, for only $3.99 until Thursday, January 31, at 10:59AM GMT.
Posted January 30, 2013
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G-Doc: I'm happy to report that our logic is flawed. If the term "fluid" is wider then the term "liquid", then saying that more than 70% of Earth's surface is covered in fluid wouldn't be precise, but it still would be correct.

You know, technically. ;-)

But thank you. I'll adjust my phrasing henceforth.
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Ghorpm: You are provoking me yet again! But I'll keep my physics-nerdiness to myself because it wouldn't even be funny this time ;P I'll just let you know that it would be about "Earth's surface"

At least I didn't treat you to one of those famous physics jokes that nobody (except of physicist, obviously) can understand ;)
Yup, I am in fact provoking you, and I think I can anticipate what your point about the Earth's surface would be :-)

Do you know the one with the spherical chickens in vacuum? :-D
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Posted January 30, 2013
I actually picked this up for the Wii U. Once of the most underwhelming games I've played in recent months, and extremely boring. I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong with it, as it's made well enough, but it's just lacking in any kind of excitement or real strategy.
Posted January 30, 2013
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G-Doc: Do you know the one with the spherical chickens in vacuum? :-D
Big Bang Theory ;)

Ok, you ASKED for that:
Why are quantum physicists bad lovers? Because when they find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they have the momentum, they can't find the position.
It's not the most difficult one though ;)
Posted January 30, 2013
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G-Doc: Do you know the one with the spherical chickens in vacuum? :-D
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Ghorpm: Big Bang Theory ;)

Ok, you ASKED for that:
Why are quantum physicists bad lovers? Because when they find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they have the momentum, they can't find the position.
It's not the most difficult one though ;)
And why are software developers bad lovers? Because they always look for faster ways to complete the task, and when they find them they're convinced to have improved.
Posted January 30, 2013
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G-Doc: Do you know the one with the spherical chickens in vacuum? :-D
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Ghorpm: Big Bang Theory ;)

Ok, you ASKED for that:
Why are quantum physicists bad lovers? Because when they find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they have the momentum, they can't find the position.
It's not the most difficult one though ;)
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are pulled over by a cop on a highway for speeding. The cop approaches the car and addresses Heisenberg, who was the driver.
- Sir, do you know how fast were you going back there?
- No - Haisenberg replies - but I can tell you exactly where that "back there" was.
The cop, dumbfounded by the answer starts to get suspicious, so he looks into the car and notices a box in the back seat. He opens it and says.
- Why the hell do you have a dead cat in there?!
To that, Schrodinger replies angrily:
- Well, it's dead NOW, thank you very much!
Posted January 30, 2013
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Ghorpm: Big Bang Theory ;)

Ok, you ASKED for that:
Why are quantum physicists bad lovers? Because when they find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they have the momentum, they can't find the position.
It's not the most difficult one though ;)
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G-Doc: Heisenberg and Schrodinger are pulled over by a cop on a highway for speeding. The cop approaches the car and addresses Heisenberg, who was the driver.
- Sir, do you know how fast were you going back there?
- No - Haisenberg replies - but I can tell you exactly where that "back there" was.
The cop, dumbfounded by the answer starts to get suspicious, so he looks into the car and notices a box in the back seat. He opens it and says.
- Why the hell do you have a dead cat in there?!
To that, Schrodinger replies angrily:
- Well, it's dead NOW, thank you very much!
That's a good one! I knew it as a two separate jokes ;) But have you heard that entropy isn't what it used to be? (it IS a joke!)

Or: uranium asks barium: tell me, where half you been all my life?
Posted January 30, 2013
This game addicted.
Posted January 30, 2013
Lookit all the blue nerdlyness. :P

Anyways, looks like a decent game, but of course for me new games on GOG = eh, much of the time, especially if they look like something that can be done in Flash. (Personal bias obviously) As I said in another thread, I am looking forward to Kickstarter titles coming here, those that stay in the "spirit" of old games. (War for the Overworld, Wasteland 2, etc.)
Posted January 31, 2013
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GOG.com: Earth is covered in fluid. Even we are composed of fluid in over 60%!
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Ghorpm: Somebody has surely missed his physics lessons ;) I guess you actually meant "liquid". I know that is very common to treat them as synonyms but actually they are not. Fluids, my dear sir, include liquids, gases and even plasmas. If that's not enough even some plastic solids meet some of the basic requirements ;)
True as that may be, Earth is covered in fluids nonetheless.
Posted January 31, 2013
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Ghorpm: Somebody has surely missed his physics lessons ;) I guess you actually meant "liquid". I know that is very common to treat them as synonyms but actually they are not. Fluids, my dear sir, include liquids, gases and even plasmas. If that's not enough even some plastic solids meet some of the basic requirements ;)
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Barefoot_Monkey: True as that may be, Earth is covered in fluids nonetheless.
Gah! Do we really want to continue this debate? ;)

First of all my main concern was about human body which was supposed to be formed by fluids. True, we may say that we are composed of water (60%) but it's not in its clean, liquid state! You even have water in your bones and it clearly cannot be called a fluid from physicist's point of view.

And about the surface of the Earth... first of all you have to ask yourself a question: what is actually the surface of the Earth? There are a lot of possible ways to define it and all of them can be valid (it depends on your assumptions). The most common assumption (which leads to 70% of water result) is that the Earth shape can be approximated by spheroid with ~6380 km and 6360 km semi-major and semi-minor axis, respectively. But in this case the technically correct expression is not that 70% of the surface is covered in water/fluid/liquid but 70% of the surface is water/fluid/liquid. The reduction of the shape of the Earth leads to merging of its surface with its (surface's) components - land and water.

Please forgive me my nerdiness ;)
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