I use “malus” as the opposite of (en)“bonus” (by extension from the Latin) and especially in the sense of “something that was meant to be a bonus but is not actually good”. In this case they were extra puzzles that came at the end of one of the stories which took a lot of tedious grinding-through-the-steps to deal with compared to the amount of actual “higher” puzzle-solving effort that they would require if one had “properly” solved the smaller puzzles with the same concept earlier in the story.
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Date: 2015-05-29 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-29 06:35 pm (UTC)I use “malus” as the opposite of (en)“bonus” (by extension from the Latin) and especially in the sense of “something that was meant to be a bonus but is not actually good”. In this case they were extra puzzles that came at the end of one of the stories which took a lot of tedious grinding-through-the-steps to deal with compared to the amount of actual “higher” puzzle-solving effort that they would require if one had “properly” solved the smaller puzzles with the same concept earlier in the story.
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Date: 2015-05-31 08:35 pm (UTC)For a moment I thought there were hidden apple puzzles in Layton :)