Game should have come with an "American centric" warning.

[Ninethousand]

There have been multiple things i failed to solve because i am not american.

- Garage door opener looks like an intercom to anyone who isn't american. It even has those "cut out lines" that exist so the voice is not muffled by the casing too much. Also that thing has an ELECTRIC light to show you that it has no electricity? I just randomly hit it at one point when i needed the keys, and apparently had it powered on that time.

- Christmas card, because for me, Christmas is 3 days. We don't have "boxing day" and all that shenanigans. I tried 1224 and 2412 and then moved on...

- Museum, because nobody outside of America ever heard the word that is the solution for the 4th picture. When i googled, most Americans even said that they never heard the word.

I am sure there have been many more problems, but i can't think of any right now.

The game should have come with a warning that you need to be american, and not only fluid in that language.

Edit: Also the "Gaits" thing. And when you google that, you see pictures of horses. But DON'T count the horses in the puzzle! That was just silly. How did people have the idea to count everything but the horses, when apparently horses are a prime example for gaits?

[BrknSoul]

> - Christmas card, because for me, Christmas is 3 days. We don't have "boxing day" and all that shenanigans. I tried 1224 and 2412 and then moved on...

Christmas is on the 25th of December, not the 24th.

[MorpheusLunae]

My guy has 120+ pages of forum posts with nothing but complaining. My guy's hobby is hating on all kinds of small and big things in video games.

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Guess he didn't get the hate he wanted in his other thread, so made a new one to try and anger Americans. Quicker this guy gets banned the better.

[Carsten]

I agree with OP. I'm German. Also, for dates, there's the issue of dd/mm/yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy. I believe that both "mmdd" and "ddmm" are accepted where needed, though.

[Ninethousand]

Originally posted by BrknSoul:

> - Christmas card, because for me, Christmas is 3 days. We don't have "boxing day" and all that shenanigans. I tried 1224 and 2412 and then moved on...

Christmas is on the 25th of December, not the 24th.

Literally never heard of anyone celebrating on the 25th or 26th here.

Originally posted by MorpheusLunae:

My guy has 120+ pages of forum posts with nothing but complaining. My guy's hobby is hating on all kinds of small and big things in video games.

Why would i spend my time in a discussion, when the game is good?

[Civil Sky]

the hint is "small gates", what part of a horse running is a "small gait"?

and as for the christmas thing, you have 3 possible dates, and you tried one of them twice and moved on?

and the garage door switch did look like an intercom to me too, but you know, its an interactable with an off-light, and i'd already run into the utility room with a "garage" switch on the fusebox. gee, i wonder what happens if i turn the garage on?

none of these are difficult things to intuit, whether you're american or not.

[Ninethousand]

Originally posted by Civil Sky:

the hint is "small gates", what part of a horse running is a "small gait"?

and as for the christmas thing, you have 3 possible dates, and you tried one of them twice and moved on?

and the garage door switch did look like an intercom to me too, but you know, its an interactable with an off-light, and i'd already run into the utility room with a "garage" switch on the fusebox. gee, i wonder what happens if i turn the garage on?

none of these are difficult things to intuit, whether you're american or not.

WTF is an "off light"? You mean the red light on your TV? The standby light? The one that is OFF WHEN YOU TURN OFF THE POWER??? Yeah... exactly... That was freaking stupid. For us, a red light means that it is ready to be used. We don't have red lights on things that are disconnected from the power grid... HOW WOULD WE? Batteries only for the LED? PLEASE don't tell me you actually do that...

And "Gaits" is the solution to the safe in the drawing room. You are supposed to count the pictures that show people "taking small steps" while the horse is also taking small steps, and apparently this is a term for how horses walk, you know how horses have weird names for their different walk speeds and stuff like that... As i said, nothing a European could possibly figure out without having studied American (not english) for 40 years.

[Civil Sky]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

Originally posted by Civil Sky:

the hint is "small gates", what part of a horse running is a "small gait"?

and as for the christmas thing, you have 3 possible dates, and you tried one of them twice and moved on?

and the garage door switch did look like an intercom to me too, but you know, its an interactable with an off-light, and i'd already run into the utility room with a "garage" switch on the fusebox. gee, i wonder what happens if i turn the garage on?

none of these are difficult things to intuit, whether you're american or not.

WTF is an "off light"? You mean the red light on your TV? The standby light? The one that is OFF WHEN YOU TURN OFF THE POWER??? Yeah... exactly... That was freaking stupid. For us, a red light means that it is ready to be used. We don't have red lights on things that are disconnected from the power grid... HOW WOULD WE? Batteries only for the LED? PLEASE don't tell me you actually do that...

And "Gaits" is the solution to the safe in the drawing room. You are supposed to count the pictures that show people "taking small steps" while the horse is also taking small steps, and apparently this is a term for how horses walk, you know how horses have weird names for their different walk speeds and stuff like that... As i said, nothing a European could possibly figure out without having studied American (not english) for 40 years.

when i say off-light i am referring to how in games, a red light means off, green light means on. which is literally the case with the intercom thing. either way, it doesn't matter because the point i was making is that seeing the interactable that doesnt do anything and remembering the garage switch in the fuse box should make you consider a connection between the two. If you can connect "small gates" to "gaits", you can connect "thing in garage" to "switch on the fuse box". you need no cultural knowledge or even an understanding of the thing in the garage to do this. It's not like i knew what it was until the garage door opened.

as for the drawing room, did you notice the arrows beneath the paintings? the horse has an arrow 5 times the size of the actual "small gaits" you're supposed to be counting and the safe is literally covered by the woman tip toeing. theres only one other painting type with an arrow the same size.

i am not american, to be clear. this is not a cultural thing, just a language thing. google the definition of gait. its that simple. it has 2 definitions, the first one being in regards to the manner of walking or stepping. i'm not saying its unreasonable to look at the horse and assume gait is referring to that, but when that didn't work, did you not go back to the definition?

[SMJSMOK]

Originally posted by BrknSoul:

> - Christmas card, because for me, Christmas is 3 days. We don't have "boxing day" and all that shenanigans. I tried 1224 and 2412 and then moved on...

Christmas is on the 25th of December, not the 24th.

Many countries celebrate Christmas on the 24th. I'm from one of them and it also took me a while to realize what the code is supposed to be. Luckily I remember from American movies that they celebrate it "a day later", so it clicked lol.

[Ninethousand]

Originally posted by Civil Sky:

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

WTF is an "off light"? You mean the red light on your TV? The standby light? The one that is OFF WHEN YOU TURN OFF THE POWER??? Yeah... exactly... That was freaking stupid. For us, a red light means that it is ready to be used. We don't have red lights on things that are disconnected from the power grid... HOW WOULD WE? Batteries only for the LED? PLEASE don't tell me you actually do that...

And "Gaits" is the solution to the safe in the drawing room. You are supposed to count the pictures that show people "taking small steps" while the horse is also taking small steps, and apparently this is a term for how horses walk, you know how horses have weird names for their different walk speeds and stuff like that... As i said, nothing a European could possibly figure out without having studied American (not english) for 40 years.

when i say off-light i am referring to how in games, a red light means off, green light means on. which is literally the case with the intercom thing. either way, it doesn't matter because the point i was making is that seeing the interactable that doesnt do anything and remembering the garage switch in the fuse box should make you consider a connection between the two. If you can connect "small gates" to "gaits", you can connect "thing in garage" to "switch on the fuse box". you need no cultural knowledge or even an understanding of the thing in the garage to do this. It's not like i knew what it was until the garage door opened.

as for the drawing room, did you notice the arrows beneath the paintings? the horse has an arrow 5 times the size of the actual "small gaits" you're supposed to be counting and the safe is literally covered by the woman tip toeing. theres only one other painting type with an arrow the same size.

i am not american, to be clear. this is not a cultural thing, just a language thing. google the definition of gait. its that simple. it has 2 definitions, the first one being in regards to the manner of walking or stepping. i'm not saying its unreasonable to look at the horse and assume gait is referring to that, but when that didn't work, did you not go back to the definition?

"Google the definition"

PLEASE read what i write. That is EXACTLY what i did, and google shows me HORSES!

And i also said that i read the solution at one point. I have no idea what a gait is. I am just saying, that even with google i could not possibly solve it, because google thinks gait = horse, while the game thinks gait = man...

"Red = Off, Green = On"

Yeah, and what about the things that become blue when they are powered? The ones that are black when they are offline? It's ALMOST like the game is completely inconsistent...
Not that i knew this before seeing this, but the devices powered by the boiler room are all "black" or "dark" when they are offline, and become glowing blue when they are online.

Also again the question. IS there a battery in the box, for the LED to function? That is idiotic! I saw a working LED and assumed it had power... SORRY for using my brain!

Even in the late game sometimes i drafted something, and everything is weirdly dark, as if i am in a dark room. It's not like the lighting is consistent either. When i pushed the button i assumed the power was on because the LED was on.

[GuyYouMetOnline]

A status light with its own power is not an uncommon thing. But also what I did was push the button and nothing happened so I moved on, then when I got the utility closet and turned on power to the garage I immediately went back to see what has changed and when I saw the light was green now I pressed the button again. It should really be obvious that turning on the power changes something, leading to one looking around until you find what changed.

[Civil Sky]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

Originally posted by Civil Sky:

when i say off-light i am referring to how in games, a red light means off, green light means on. which is literally the case with the intercom thing. either way, it doesn't matter because the point i was making is that seeing the interactable that doesnt do anything and remembering the garage switch in the fuse box should make you consider a connection between the two. If you can connect "small gates" to "gaits", you can connect "thing in garage" to "switch on the fuse box". you need no cultural knowledge or even an understanding of the thing in the garage to do this. It's not like i knew what it was until the garage door opened.

as for the drawing room, did you notice the arrows beneath the paintings? the horse has an arrow 5 times the size of the actual "small gaits" you're supposed to be counting and the safe is literally covered by the woman tip toeing. theres only one other painting type with an arrow the same size.

i am not american, to be clear. this is not a cultural thing, just a language thing. google the definition of gait. its that simple. it has 2 definitions, the first one being in regards to the manner of walking or stepping. i'm not saying its unreasonable to look at the horse and assume gait is referring to that, but when that didn't work, did you not go back to the definition?

"Google the definition"

PLEASE read what i write. That is EXACTLY what i did, and google shows me HORSES!

And i also said that i read the solution at one point. I have no idea what a gait is. I am just saying, that even with google i could not possibly solve it, because google thinks gait = horse, while the game thinks gait = man...

google showing you images of horses is not the same you looking at a definition, and if you actually had you would have been given the intended definition that the game uses. i'm sorry but this is a you problem. you tried to half-ass the puzzle and when it didn't work you gave up.

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by BrknSoul:

> - Christmas card, because for me, Christmas is 3 days. We don't have "boxing day" and all that shenanigans. I tried 1224 and 2412 and then moved on...

Christmas is on the 25th of December, not the 24th.

Christmas eve is the 24th and celebrated in some countries instead of christmas day.

It's like new years eve, rather than celebrating the night of new years day (January 1st) people usually celebrate the night of new years eve (December 31st).

You kind of proved Ninethousands point.

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

Originally posted by MorpheusLunae:

My guy has 120+ pages of forum posts with nothing but complaining. My guy's hobby is hating on all kinds of small and big things in video games.

Why would i spend my time in a discussion, when the game is good?

Why would you when you think its bad?

[MorpheusLunae]

If he spent all the time he uses for complaining on actually making his own game he would be the next Jonathan Blow.