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[Silken Healer]

19 October 2024
Dear blog...
            In school at the start of October we got to do the UK Senior Maths Challenge which is a maths test some schools enter into. The people who score very high on that are the people who are like the people who get invited to a second exam for the smartest people in Mathematics in the whole country. They actually have the exact paper I did up on their website already: https://ukmt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SMC-2024-Paper.pdf. It was very hard, but it was just done mainly for a bit of fun, those types of papers you have to prepare for those particular paper types, they rely very heavily on memorizing tricks and having good problem solving skills, I am used to doing papers of a different nature. For example, the question "What is two-fifths of the recurring decimal 0.252525...?" could just be answered by knowing anything recurring like that is itself over 99. Then, multiplying the fractions but I did the whole

let x = 0.252525
100x = 25.252525
100x-x=25=99x

stuff and so on. It was still good fun though so that's what counts.

The scores are divided into "bronze" "silver" and "gold." I heard somewhere that a bronze is what I can expect to get if I don't guess (it's one of those papers where you get more marks from skipping questions than guessing to discourage random guessing) and try hard with no preparations. I remember I got 46 or 48 or something, and a Bronze was 50, so between it just being for fun and not being used to such tricky problem solving papers I did quite good. These are the solutions if anyone is interested.

[Silken Healer]

Dear blog...
            I thought I would write down all my Lix settings, so when I re-download Lix when a new version comes out I can copy them over without not having important settings not downloaded whilst I'm in the middle of a multi-player game.

Downloading Lix

• Open a web browser
• Open https://lixgame.com
• Click on the highest blue text which says "lix-." Then, a number. Then, a full stop. Then, another number. Then, a full stop. Then, another number. Then, "-win64.zip"
• Choose a location to save it where you would like to have to navigate to to acsess Lix
• Switch back to the your browser
• Open https://www.7-zip.org
• Click the highest light blue text that says "Download"
• Choose a location to save it
• Navigate to the location you chose to save it in a file explorer. I recommend Cubic Explorer.
• Run the executable file
• Navigate through the wizard for installing 7-Zip
• Assess the location of folder from step four in a file explorer. I recommend Cubic Explorer.
• Right click on the folder downloaded from https://lixgame.com
• Hover the mouse over "7-Zip"
• Click on "Extract files..."
• Click on the check box under the "Extract" location which has to the right of it says "lix-." Then, a number. Then, a full stop. Then, another number. Then, a full stop. Then, another number. Then, "-win64"
• Click on the box that says "OK"
• Wait for it to extract

Opening Lix

• Navigate to the location where you saved it in a file explorer. I recommend Cubic Explorer.
• Open on the folder that says "lix"
• Run lix.exe

Entering your name

• When you first open Lix it tells you to enter your name. My username is "Silken Healer"

My graphics options

• Click on "Software fullscreen"
• Click on "Count physics and FPS"
• Click on "Paint torus seams"

My game controls options

• Click on the two left arrows symbols next to "Snap Distance in pixels" until it is at 0

Game keys
This isn't an option within Lix itself, but I set my mouse button four and five to be the left/right arrow keys, to quickly select a Lix going in that direction.

Optionally
Optionally, in the "Menu Keys" section of the Options you can change the colour to be a pretty colour. The default is #6080B0

Downloading the Flopsy replay archive

• Open https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i7fle9n5zo4bv0v2umkb7/flopsy-replay-archive.zip?rlkey=avmvetqaahwdm9gh6b5a519s1&st=myu3aflu&dl=1 in a web browser.
• Save them to your ...\lix\replays
• Navigate to ...\lix\replays in a file explorer. I recommend Cubic Explorer
• Hover the mouse over "7-Zip"
• Click on "Extract files"
• Again, uncheck that checkbox thing that adds an extra folder
• Open the folder that says "flopsy replay archive"
• Press CTRL+A
• Press CTRL+X
• Go back up a folder
• Press CTRL+V
• Delete flopsy replay archive.zip

Creating a "My levels" folder
I like to create a folder for my own levels, as I make random levels for like practicing multi-player levels in single-player

• Navigate to ...\lix\levels in a file explorer. I recommend Cubic Explorer.
• Right click on any empty space
• Hover the mouse over the bar that says "New"
• Click on the text that says "Folder"
• Type "My levels"
• Click enter

Optionally downloading the original Lemmings 2p levels
The original Lemmings levels can optionally be downloaded from https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=3719 and https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=14268

[Silken Healer]

20 October 2024
Dear blog...
            Today I wanted to share a very good idea I had. Basically, I could make a program that takes the export of an IRC chat from mIRC, and then converts the IRC control characters into some markup language, to display the colours/bold/etc. I think this is a very good idea to make.

Also I had some ice cream today and it was very nice...

[Silken Healer]

21 October 2024

Dear blog...
            The other day I figured out you can do CSS without using CSS https://stackoverflow.com/a/21951731. I think this is a very good idea because if you're making a web page and someone doesn't have CSS then they can still see colours, fonts, sizes etc. I am very glad that I found out you could do that.

[Silken Healer]

23 October 2024

Dear blog...
            Oh no, I accidently forgot to do an entry yesterday . Anyway, I haven't really done much today. I tidyed up a tiny bit but that's really it.

[namida]

and someone doesn't have CSS

Outside of very niche browsers (that probably won't support most of those tags either), no one will be browsing the internet with a browser that doesn't support CSS these days.

[Silken Healer]

Outside of very niche browsers (that probably won't support most of those tags either), no one will be browsing the internet with a browser that doesn't support CSS these days.

I know, but I like the philosophy of the old web from the 1990s before cookie boxes and adverts existed and keeping things simple rather than complicated, and that things shouldn't completley break down if you turn CSS off because they completley rely on CSS.

[Silken Healer]

24 October 2024
Dear blog...
            Today has been a bit of a pain. I noticed an issue with my monitors. Whenever I plug in my primary monitor, my teritary monitor turns off. So, my teritary monitor only works when my primary monitor is not plugged in. It still says "plugged into [name of graphics card]" in my settings, it's just not turning on  . It's been a bit of a pain today bending over trying to plug in tangled up cables and accidently knocking my computer and turning it off etc. I think I should just go to bed now, stop worrying, and just use two monitors for the near future. If any of the techy people on the forum happens to have a guess as to what is causing it then please tell me. Graphics card is a Radeon RX 5700, primary monitor uses Display Port and teritary monitor uses VGA --> VGA extention --> VGA to HDMI (though I tried it without the extention and it still had the issue). I tried moving some ports around and it had a similar issue.

EDIT: This was the fucking issue the entire time

[Silken Healer]

31 October 2024
Happy Halloween everyone. I don't really do anything to celeberate it, but I hope everybody has a nice time today.

[Simon]

Game keys
This isn't an option within Lix itself, but I set my mouse button four and five to be the left/right arrow keys, to quickly select a Lix going in that direction.

I should support those higher-numbered buttons in Lix outright. Thanks for reminding me to file this as a bug. It's now github #492: Mice with 4+ Buttons: Allow as Hotkeys.

all my Lix settings, so when I re-download Lix when a new version comes out I can copy them over

Copy the user/ directory from the previous installation into the new one. user/ contains options.sdl, which lists all these settings and hotkeys.

-- Simon