After deciding that she has a bad shopping habit, a friend of mine challenged herself to not purchase any new items in 2026. Now she is only shopping yard sales and charity stores. She is focusing more on offline hobbies so it sort of fits.
This brings us to the puzzle. She got a super 80s looking 1000 piece puzzle with a pictures of two white tigers on it at a charity store. After working on it off and on for a few weeks she discovered that it is missing 3 pieces.
She found an old frame for it and hung it up anyway. She says it is complete because that’s how it came to her. Is it really complete or is it simply an incomplete puzzle on the wall? Or both somehow?
Edit: Just to be clear, we are not having an argument about this. We both found the topic interesting to discuss and couldn’t really decide on any single answer.
I tend to think in « how much time did she invest in it » so yeah it’s complete
Like the Puzzle Project is complete, even if the puzzle lacks 3 of the pieces?
I come from art and a project is never really complete. Sometimes you have to let go and affirm that it is complete even if it lacks 3 pieces
Another example is sometimes when an artist passes away and you get to hear some unreleased songs. They are technically complete, but they didn’t quite consider them ready and finalized enough to let others hear it when they were around.
Applies to software too, although my specific example is probably closer to art. Hollow Knight silksong was released and a few items were cut to streamline the “completeness” at release, but there is a planned DLC that will bring in some of that content back in a more cohesive and complete package. To most people it is complete, but some fans might think it is not yet complete because they know about the cut content and subsequent planned release.
It is a very subjective opinion.