it also looks like i missed an hr tag 8(
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 09:42 (two years ago) link
How do you put possessive nouns in e.g. David's struggling to work out how to do that.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 10:03 (two years ago) link
Haven't played in a while, holidays etc. Never heard of todays, nevertheless had no clue after 400 guesses that is wasSF.
― ledge, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 10:06 (two years ago) link
> David's
apostrophe's were a problem because where they are used 'for quoted speech' they should appear unredacted but if i do that for "they're" or "david's" or whatever then it would split the word into two, meaning that "re" and "s" would be words. (redactle-unlimited does this, i don't like it)
the compromise was to use smart quotes, 6s / 9s, lsquo / rsquo, ‘ / ’ for quotes that i wanted in the text, straight quotes for the others. meaning you need to include the ' in your guess for things like "David's" and "they're"
but this is something that i have to do manually and i make mistakes. is there a specific example you are struggling with?
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 11:42 (two years ago) link
re the theme yeah, there seems to be a copyright loophole in that a lot of short stories previous published in Astounding or other pulpy mags from the 40s and 50s are public domain, wheras normally you'd see nothing after 1924. search for SF in gutenberg and you see *lots* of these, incl some very big names, alongside the hg wells and stuff. i've basically picked the most obvious of these for 10 or so authors, avoiding stuff that had unguessable stuff in the title, like "Thuvia, Maid of Mars"
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 11:54 (two years ago) link
It was the one a few days ago, got the title but couldn't input it. Forgotten what it was called.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html?0902 has an apostrophe in the title and seems to work ok. it's lady audley's secret
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
That's the one I couldn't complete, odd.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
text seems small today. i don't know why
― koogs, Thursday, 8 September 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
Haven't got any of these batch, have scarcely heard of them let alone read them. Wonder if I'll have some luck with today's after revealing 12 Rocket ____! ___ __ Rocket _____! Rocket ________! Rocket ____! Rocket ________ for the ____-___! Rocket, Rocket, Rocket! ___!”
― ledge, Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.ebooknetworking.net/books_detail-084873646X.html
(^ jokes)
turns out it's not the one in martian chronicles, just shares a name with it
(^ spoiler)
i've read a few of these. i think the first thing i did when i got the kobo was to look for free SF on PG
― koogs, Thursday, 15 September 2022 11:16 (two years ago) link
I cheated. And then read it - not one for the ages.
― ledge, Thursday, 15 September 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
first non-gutenberg book tomorrow. am surprised they didn't have a copy, but i found one somewhere else.
prompted me to make some more changes to index.html - minimal instructions.
― koogs, Sunday, 18 September 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
I’ve got the title today I think, The Death of Ivan Ilyich but won’t take the last word. Any idea what I’m doing wrong.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 September 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
i did notice variations in the spelling when i was trying to find a copy, mine has an extra t in it (the letter count would be a clue)
― koogs, Monday, 19 September 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link
That makes sense, I did wonder if the spelling was wrong. Interestingly Wikipedia doesn’t suggest an alternative spelling.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 September 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link
it's the public domain translation from 1900 or so by Constance Barnett so it might be that. it's all over archive.org (albeit as scans)
― koogs, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
got todays in three, (typed the title as one word instead of two), very memorable opening line.
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 07:54 (one year ago) link
i was surprised but that's how it is.
https://github.com/acdean/all_the_year_round/blob/master/atyr_1866_mugby_junction/1866_mugby_junction.txt
line 3109... that said, the toc has it as one word
― koogs, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
oh, that's more spoiler-y than i imagined
Comes up as "something's gone wrong" for me today.
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
um, you might've run out. I've been putting them up only a few days in advance and whilst the laptop does have 1008 on it i may not have uploaded it.
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
yeah, was exactly that. pushed now...
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
Ah cool! I got it straight away but I think it might be one of those ones where the punctuation messes with it realising that you completed the title.
No worries if this is a project you don't want to be tied to forever, but I will say that I play daily and enjoy it a lot.
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
oh, you are right
i've typed in all the words in the title and it's still saying i have the following left to type:
Array [ "", "" ]
so, yes, a genuine bug (and i should've checked that). i do wonder if the other bug report from above is apple converting an input ' to the curly version, because i couldn't reproduce. but this isn't that.
october's theme has helped with any ennui i may've had given that i have more ideas than i have days. but, yeah, that's 130 i've done now...
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
bug fixed - the opening and ending quotes confused it. the fix is to not add empty words to the title words list.
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
rats, i thought i'd done up to the end of the month but there's a hole on the 28th -31st.
i've added one for today and 1101 - 1103, will try fill the gap appropriately later. (all october was horror stories of some stripe or other, including an entire week of vampire stories)
― koogs, Monday, 31 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
calamity. did a bunch of new games the other day and didn't push them so it's been broken the last week.
and i checked the 'previous games' page and there was a bug - using "+" to concat two numbers added them instead (which i didn't see when i wrote it because of the way i padded single digit mm and dd numbers which converted them to strings)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
All the recent games come up "Something has gone wrong..."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
yeah, i ran out of books / enthusiasm. there are about 10 month's-worth, so anything from 0601 to 1231 and 0101 to 03xx will work.
ie
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html?0328
― koogs, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
(0404 is the latest)
― koogs, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/
ok, tidied that up now - if it can't find a game for 'today' then it'll link to the new archive page that lists all available games so you can choose.
if anyone has ideas for books to add then let me know. (the full list of 306 (spoilers!) is at https://acdean.github.io/bookish/titles.txt)
― koogs, Sunday, 14 May 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link