Update: I'll have to temporarily delete the first vod's link and permanently delete the old archive.org account and make a new one because I'm not allowed to use Simon's full name.

I've been archiving Simon's VODs for a while now, and he gave me permission to mirror them myself online, so I'm going to create a thread to index them all

VOD Title Date Chat archived? Mirror link Lix multiplayer with the Lemmings Forums Community 2025-01-26 https://archive.org/details/2025-01-26_SimonNaar_-_Lix_multiplayer_with_the_Lemmings_Forums_community Lemmings, Level of the Year 2024. Help solve! 2025-06-15 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2486799239 Level of the Year 2025. Help solve! 2026-06-05 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2789192788 Level of the Year 2025. Help solve! 2026-06-07 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2790889353 Level of the Year 2025. Help solve! 2026-06-10 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2793400321 Level of the Year 2025. Help solve! 2026-06-21 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2801956627 Level of the Year 2025. Help solve! 2026-07-01 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2809760582 Flopsy's Lix puzzles. Help solve! 2026-08-22 https://archive.org/details/twitch-2853314731 It might take a while for me to do the rest as it's quite tedious to optimize the video and then use the archive.org command line tool which is notorious for being a pain but I'll upload everything I have eventually Edit 2026-11-03 19:04: I think I'm done. The 2026-08-22 stream hasn't come through yet but it says it's done in the command line tool and I even uploaded it again so I assume it just needs to a wait a minute to show up Edit 2026-11-03 16:33: Unfortunately I didn't save the chat for the 2026-07-01 stream, it's a shame but there's nothing I can do

To reiterate what I said on IRC for those not on IRC at the time

[2026-11-01 15:17:26] ␃18␈<␈Flopsy␃18␈>␈␏ redacted
[2026-11-01 15:18:03] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 no␏
[2026-11-01 15:18:13] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 as in no dont assume that␏
[2026-11-01 15:18:33] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 I was just about to reply to you "probably yeah"␏
[2026-11-01 15:18:39] ␃18␈<␈Flopsy␃18␈>␈␏ redacted
[2026-11-01 15:18:51] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 i wasnt at my pc for the last hour␏
[2026-11-01 15:19:25] ␃18␈<␈Kingshadow␃18␈>␈␏ I'll consider it based on if other people are interested.
[2026-11-01 15:19:34] ␃18␈<␈Flopsy␃18␈>␈␏ redacted
[2026-11-01 15:20:01] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 Sorry I have my IRC client on all the time even when I'm not at my PC␏
[2026-11-01 15:20:12] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 I've literally just got back on my PC lol␏
[2026-11-01 15:23:51] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 So yeah my answer is gonna be a "probably yeah"␏
[2026-11-01 15:24:54] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 Due to feeling depressed and not really in the mood for any games or anything lately I can't give a 100% yes.␏
[2026-11-01 15:25:17] ␃20␈<␈SilkenHealer␈>␈␏␃99 But I played the Lix last month anyway and the Jackbox after despite feeling depressed and I think it was a wise move in the end␏

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Quote from: kaywhyn on November 01, 2026, 06:32:50 PMOther than that, I'm interested in another session shortly after the last one which for my very first one I absolutely enjoyed!  

Glad you enjoyed the last one hope you like this one.

• I don't think you can force it to make the whole forum talk about non-[custom levels and engines content], I think if someone wants to talk about they will just have to want to start/join whatever non-[custom levels and engines content] on their own
• I don't know what you mean exactly by a "chain of dependencies." Isn't dependencies when you just need to install something to get another program to work? I've never encountered dependencies working in a chain-like structure if you mean that if one dependency breaks you have to deinstall and reinstall all the succeeding dependencies. Just reinstall the specific dependency that breaks? Also AFAIK NeoLemmix has no dependencies, that probably wouldn't then change for CE and SuperLemmix, and Lix has no dependencies. And I'd imagine those three encapsulate nearly all custom content.
• I think it makes sense that naturally conversation would be more about custom levels and engines rather than not that (e.g. lemmings (fictional species) and the old games I guess) because it's regenerative and one can make an unlimited endless supply of new levels so I think that it makes sense that naturally custom content would be the cutting edge of the Lemmings community nowadays

Quote from: namida on October 30, 2026, 10:18:01 PMCompletely forgot about it, to be honest.

Confirmed just now that I can reproduce the issue. Don't really feel like digging into the code right now (and it's in no way an urgent matter), though.

Yep fair dos

Quote from: lemmkeev20 on October 04, 2026, 02:46:42 PMwell i have planned making a level contest...

but can it be done anytime or not?

Yes, you can make your own level design contest at any time. Though this is advisory, not a prohibition, but if you time your own ones to be whilst the standard level design contests are not currently running you'll likely get more participation. But this is advisory, not a rule you are required to follow.

Quote from: namida on October 24, 2024, 04:59:06 AMRecent post count shouldn't vary between themes, but maybe something's wrong on some of them - I'll take a closer look sometime, although it probably won't be until next week.

Bump; are there any updates on this? I've started fancying the SMF standard theme again and the issue still seems to be there and you seemingly just forgot to take a look at this so I thought now might be a good time to bump this again.

Quote from: Simon on September 24, 2026, 01:55:52 AM

Example puzzles and solution

One puzzle was a poem of Japanese-sounding nonsense words, spelled in latin letters.

The solution: Transliterate each line into katakana; the standard katankana table a-ka-sa-ta-na-ha-..., i-ki-shi-chi-ni-hi-... was provided by the organizers to all teams in a general knowledge booklet. Color the location of these katakana in the standard table. See what the colored picture (pixel art) represents. Each picture (one picture per poem line) formed a kyrillic letter; transliterate the kyrillic back to German for the solution.

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One puzzle was a sequence of colorful men (silhouettes of butlers).

The solution: Look around where you are the city. 50 meters from you, there was a store called BUTLER'S with its name printed in differently-colored letters. Replace each man on the sheet with the correspondingly-colored letter from the store logo. Easy once you see it, right?

But made the mistake of attacking this puzzle sitting a quiet corner for 20 minutes, websearching, thinking about color hex codes, ..., and nothing worked. Other teams sat down in better spots and solved it in 3 minutes.

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One puzzle was a cryptic crossword. Each solution was either an animal or a plant. I got many clues right on this one:

Q: An einem zugefrorenen See stehend, gefragt wo er denn hier stehe, antwortete Goethe ganz poetisch: ...
A: Ameise ("am Eise")

Q: Reptil, das vor Gericht niemals lügen würde: ...
A: Eidechse

Q: Wenn ich mich nicht entscheiden kann, in welchem Topf ich mein Erdnusscurry erhitze, dann stehe ich vor einer ...
A: Pottwal

geoo asked me how this was even possible for me, given that I like to rant against ambiguous instructions and ill-defined gameplay!

PaderPuzzle 2026 statistics

I wish I could add more to this but I don't speak (well technically "read" not "speak") German, can't easily translate PDFs and I don't seem to be good at any of these types of puzzles from what I can understand of them. But I still think it's worth me saying I think this is cool.

Quote from: Simon on September 24, 2026, 01:55:52 AMPaderPuzzle 2026 statistics, we (Suicidal Rodents) placed 12th out of 32 teams. We scored 38 points. We bought a hint for puzzle 9; you can tell because we scored 3 points there instead of the usual 4 points. We solved bonus puzzle Z1 but failed Z2.

Not too shabby.

It's not comparing apples and oranges, this is the basically same thing. This thread is for lemmkeev20's one-off levels and nominal packs and the title says it's just an In-Development topic for the "X-tralems" pack. Obviously it's not exactly, the point of an analogy is to compare another idea to a different similar idea to better illustrate the point, if it was exactly the same it wouldn't be an analogy, but it is basically the same thing. The only difference is the topic's title is a small subset of what the topic actually is, but I don't think that breaks the over all analogy that the topic title is inaccurate so we can change it without the author necessarily wanting it to be changed.

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 07:12:31 PMyou are comparing apples with pears as a saying in my region would state.

We have that expression in England too actually but it's called "comparing apples and oranges" in England.

Him being the author of the topic gives him some authority, a lot even, but he still can't name it whatever he likes. By that logic, I make 2 bug reports in the Lix topic and swap their two names, so the topic named "Bug 1" describes bug 2 and vice versa, if I request they don't be changed and give no rhyme or reason for it would that be followed?

Quote from: lemmkeev20 on October 24, 2026, 05:14:35 PMuhh i think i should name the pack to "X-tralems corporation levels and packs" is it any better?

No. "X-tralems" isn't the name of any real corporation. If your using it as a stand for "lemmkeev20's" why not just say that? Also if it is, this includes non-nominal packs, which Namida did say you can make a new thread for. It's more accurate then your previous title I guess, but why can't we just use my name "lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs"? That name is objectively the best name.

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Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMI think the level topic is perfectly fine! 

No it is not "perfectly fine." The current thread name is just an artefact of the fact that this thread was seemingly a thread for a pack named "X-tralems," and then Simon designated this to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, and he just decided to move them all into this thread instead of just creating a new thread. I 100% promise you he would have just called it that if he made a new topic. The current title is not fit for purpose.

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMIt fits for single levels by lemmkeev20 and can also serve as a development topic if this turns into a finalised X-tralems pack.

No it doesn't; it seems a bit odd for single-levels by lemmkeev20 to be posted in a title which would make it seem like it's a development topic for a pack that's in-progress.

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMIf the pack comes out and this topic shall serve for futher single levels it can then still be renamed if necessary,

This currently serves as a topic for single levels, not just "shall serve for [them]" in the future if the pack comes out.

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMWe do not need to micro manage every single topic so the name fits 100% to the exact detail.

This is not micromanging; this is a significant difference, not just "micromanagement." Simon designated this thread to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, and it still has the old name from when it was just seemingly for a pack named "X-tralems."

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMand the title of this topic also fits the current theme well enough.

No it doesn't "fit the current theme well enough." The title of this topic would suggest that this is a development pack named "X-tralems," not what it actually is, which is a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread.

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMSo, let's not take this topic off topic

I am not taking this topic off-topic. I think posting meta information about a thread in a thread such as the inaccurate title as an aterfact of the fact Simon designated this to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, and he just decided to move them all into this thread, instead of just creating a new thread and not going to the Site Discussion board for just a "you forgot to rename the thread when you changed what the thread was" is completely reasonable and on-topic. If you think it's necessary move all of these posts to "Site Discussion" in a new thread, then you are free to do so, but I don't think that's necessary.

Quote from: IchoTolot on October 24, 2026, 05:16:42 PMand leave room for the actual levels from lemmkeev20

As I said previously, I am not "using up any room" for lemmkeev20's levels. Threads don't have a post limit, and when the server's storage runs out Namida will upgrade it, so I'm not "using up any room." We have unlimited room.

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Honestly I don't get why such a big discussion has spawned out of this. I thought this was just going to be a menial objectively good one-post house keeping duty, this thread was seemingly a thread for a pack named "X-tralems," and then Simon designated this to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, and he just decided to move them all into this thread instead of just creating a new thread, and it still kept the old, no-longer accurate name. So now the thread had changed has it still kept the old name of the original thread all the posts were moved too so now just update it to what the thread now actually is. Simple. Done in 5 minutes. I don't get why this has spawned such a big discussion. I thought this would be an obviously objectively correct menial housekeeping change.

Quote from: Proxima on October 24, 2026, 04:19:00 PMIt doesn't matter

It does matter. Threads shouldn't be called something completely different to do with what they are. To give a metaphor, it would be like if we made a thread for sharing pictures of lemmings and we decided to change it to a thread for sharing pictures of all rodents and then we just forgot to update the name. It would be completely confusing. The thread only has an inaccurate name because Simon designated this a thread for a new thing from what it originally was and moved in posts from outside the thread that were that thing into here and forgot to update the name.

Quote from: Proxima on October 24, 2026, 04:19:00 PMAnd honestly, I think it's rather rude to take up so much of lemmkeev20's topic with posts that are nothing to do with their levels.

I completley disagree with you that it is rude. It's not like threads have a post limit, I'm not "using up" any space a level could be posted in, and it seems perfectly reasonable to post about meta-information (e.g. the thread having a wrong title due to Simon forgetting/not thinking to update it when he designated it to be updated to the thread to be for all of lemmkeev20's levels and nominal packs) in the thread itself.

Quote from: Proxima on October 24, 2026, 04:19:00 PMPlease just let them call the topic whatever they want.

Someone being the author of a thread gives them some discretion over the title, quite a bit actually, sure, but it doesn't give them free reign to just call it whatever they want, as having an inaccurate title effects everyone else, not just themselves. Should I be allowed to make a thread for sharing pictures of hamsters and call it "Share pictures of Lemmings in this thread" and force everyone who uses it to go "I want to share hamsters, oh no, that's the thread for sharing Lemmings that has the wrong name" just because I created the thread?

Quote from: WillLem on October 24, 2026, 09:55:04 AMWhat's wrong with just using "X-traLems" as the title? It ain't broke, don't fix it.

I'll quote my other message in the thread where I explained the reason why,

Quote from: Silken Healer on October 23, 2026, 02:16:52 PMseeing as "X-tralems" seems like it's the name of a specific level pack, and then Simon designated this thread to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, should we rename this thread to that for the sake of clarity as the thread is no longer just for the "X-tralems" pack any more?

Quote from: lemmkeev20 on October 24, 2026, 03:15:18 AM

QuoteI think "lemmkeev20's one-off levels/nominal packs" should suffice.

i don't really know... i think we should think some name ideas and them make a poll to add the name ideas to the poll...

and the winning name becomes this topic's name

thats a great idea isn't it?

if not, i think we should think name ideas

No, I don't think that's at all necessary. It was just a suggestion to fix the artefact left over by the fact this thread was seemingly for a specific pack and then Simon deigned this a thread for all your one-off levels and nominal packs and didn't update the name. My name is fine and everything a thread name needs to be.

I think "lemmkeev20's one-off levels/nominal packs" should suffice.