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#1: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jul 1, 2011 [SPOILER]

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life is often compromise

Life: "The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death"

You did not choose to live, but you took on the challenges it came with. It's a compromise between dealing with your circumstances which you cannot control, and the alternative which is death. Since you can't change the past, and you have decided to keep on keeping on, compromise is a component of life rather than a passing occasional event.

sometimes one doesn't have to compromise when the circumstance is in agreement with its needs/wants/desires

A lifestyle can be considered a compromise to a whole different lifestyle. A man who dedicates his life to medicine gives up a life of partying. He may not like to party, but he will never live a second life to find out what he missed out on.

just think if your name was DaYS

That's my fiance's name

Happy afternoons

I always hope I get a doctor that has not been partying a lot!

love this puzzle. i believe that our circumstances are never in agreement with our needs/wants/desires. once we fulfill a need/want/desire, a whole new need/want/desire will manifest, and will need to be fulfilled. it's this constant quest for a state of equilibrium that gives meaning to our lives.

Like food

Very interesting image and discussion.

No one has mentioned the solve. So I will. :-)

I was not able to complete this one without guessing. There was a point where I got stuck and could not find any edge logic to help me, just lots of 1 and 2 clues. I did a visually logical guess on some of the single pixels, but that did not get me far. I eventually had to peek at the solution. Which kind of ruined the fun of solving.

NiGHTS, you said you had to change it up to make it solvable. And I appreciate that. With multiple solutions on a puzzle this big, not many would have even tried to solve it. But when the checker says that it is logically solvable, sometimes it tells you to check it first to see if it is solvable without guessing (using smile logic or edge logic). On a huge grid like this, it is usually better to avoid the need to guess, as it compromises the enjoyment of the many puzzlers who will want to solve your excellent puzzles. Some people have laptops and they need to scroll up and down and up and down. Or they print it out. Either way, it's way too difficult to solve a big puzzle that requires this kind of guessing.

You had to compromise your original idea for this puzzle in order to make it solvable. I compromised my desire to make only complimentary comments. You are such a creative spirit, and it is so exciting to solve your interesting high-quality puzzles. I hope that my constructive criticism does not squash your inspiration to make more puzzles. Because I am really loving them. :-)

Yes I will take your advice to consideration. On future puzzles I will try to make them in such a way that at least one row contains enough clues to produce the final image. This is something I have noticed recently in puzzles, and it is a great way to ensure that the solve is actually fun.

Its a learning process through and through.

It's amazing how much you have learned in the short time you have been on this site. I can't wait to see more of your creations.

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