CubeCast Podcast E34 w/ Lucas Garron released!

Stefan said:
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What a relief! How is he?

Yes, I still find this funny :p
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Damnit Stefan, why are u so lovable.
 
  • Woah, long episode. Lots of interesting stuff, though. Lucas was a great guest.
  • One reason against speedblind at least back then might have been that you were supposed to use your regular speedsolving method, and that can't be checked. I also did (but failed) speedblind at Euro2006 along with Geir and Clement but I used my bld method with optimizations and it kinda felt like cheating.
  • Argh, Ben stole my victory! Quite surprised only us two said zero. I guess my years of experience of nitpicking and looking for loopholes explain mine.
  • What did Thom say at 1:49:55 after Andrew's "too easy for him", something like "It's like dispetrus"?
  • The "make an unequals sign" is not a solution, as that creates an inequation, not an equation as requested. A good one-move solution is to turn I-III=II into I=III-II. Any other good ones?
  • I got skype teamblind right, woot! (first time in a while, I think)
 
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Sa967St said:
So, I really should make that mini-montage for episode 21-24 in season 1. I'll get to it and finish it by the end of 2013, I promise.

I also want to remake the first montage since the sound quality was so trashy because of the editing software I was using.
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Montage 1 (episode 1-10) remake done. :)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9449082/CubeCast Montage 1 Remake.wma

Unfortunately I can't upload it to YouTube since it's over 15 minutes.

I'll finish the mini montage before New Years.
 
This is very late and I am not sure if this is where I should post this, but did anyone notice Lucas's reasoning against defect allowances was that you should get a better puzzle and the reasons against stickerless cubes was basically that the puzzle is better? I don't really want to start a discussion just though that it was interesting.
 
Bindedsa said:
This is very late and I am not sure if this is where I should post this, but did anyone notice Lucas's reasoning against defect allowances was that you should get a better puzzle and the reasons against stickerless cubes was basically that the puzzle is better? I don't really want to start a discussion just though that it was interesting.
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Yeah, that's exactly the problem. The puzzle is better. It gives you an advantage. But we have to draw the line somewhere for what is an unfair advantage because it "enhances the basic concept of a puzzle", e.g. when it lets you identify pieces more easily.

Basically, a stickerless cube lets you look around corners (and edges...). The current policy is that this is too much better.

I usually use this picture to illustrate it. You can see easily identify all four F2L edges from one glance, which is significantly more than the original puzzle (usually you can only tell one middle edge without thinking/counting/remembering something):
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Sa967St said:
Sa967St said:
So, I really should make that mini-montage for episode 21-24 in season 1. I'll get to it and finish it by the end of 2013, I promise.

I also want to remake the first montage since the sound quality was so trashy because of the editing software I was using.
Click to expand...

Montage 1 (episode 1-10) remake done. :)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9449082/CubeCast Montage 1 Remake.wma

Unfortunately I can't upload it to YouTube since it's over 15 minutes.

I'll finish the mini montage before New Years.
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Season 1, episodes 21-24 mini montage: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9449082/ccmontage3.wma
 
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