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- Mon May 20, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1175
- Views: 141195
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
It's possible this has already been done to death on X-Twitter, which I don't and won't follow, but I 100% believe the US has fallen into the trap of Thucydides : The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting d...
- Mon May 20, 2024 9:36 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1175
- Views: 141195
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
You're right; there's still time for an act of God to occur, or a black swan to alight. But the trajectory is more than clear. Most of the middle electorate see this as a contest between an open traitor who was savvy enough to get away with it and a man who was too weak to put an open traitor in jai...
- Mon May 20, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1175
- Views: 141195
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
This shows the challenge that Biden faces. It's not that Democrats are unpopular It's he who is unpopular. It has been obvious to me since December at the latest that, barring an act of God, Trump is going to win this thing*. Nothing that's happened since then has made me reconsider. This is a stre...
- Sun May 19, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 21633
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
I'm guessing it's in response to paranoia, full stop. A year ago there was only one that I knew of, and I just avoided walking down that street. Now they're all over the place.
- Sun May 19, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 21633
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
As I walk around my (suburban, zero-crime) neighborhood, in the street, minding my own business, I am repeatedly accosted by AI home security systems shouting out some variation on "you are being observed and recorded. Have a nice day." I do not care for this.
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I spent some time in the Wordle archives last night and, subjectively, the early ones were harder. They must have front-loaded their supply of mathematically difficult words.
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
Oh, and
Hidden text.
, so I suppose I'm unhappy with yellow too. It really irks me when a puzzle rejects a valid answer for no better reason than "it's not the one we had in mind."- Thu May 16, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I have multiple beefs with today's connections. I discerned all four categories, but all but the yellow consisted of three good candidates and one misfit. Did the regular person take the day off or something?? I have never heard of using "ice" used to mean "to assure victory." To...
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
The more I think about it, the more I think they named the modes backwards. You have a far larger set of alternatives to choose among in "easy" mode, and that very nearly matches the technical definition of a "hard" problem...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
Glad I wasn't the only one who struggled, though once I got there, I was pretty sure I wouldn't be. I play on hard mode, which I think is something of a misnomer, since it actually makes it substantially more difficult to fail as long as you don't give up. In fact, it would be an interesting twist o...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:21 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
One Connections+ failure mode is that I see what the author did and am annoyed by it. But there are also ones where I have no idea what the actual frick is going on and just have to assume drugs were involved somehow:
- Mon May 13, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
Interesting Dave. I have other games where I've played alternatively made games, making the original easier, but connections still gets me sometimes, as it did today. I had to play a hunch for today's (I had a group of three and a straggler that could plausibly be the fourth provided a certain thin...
- Mon May 13, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
Having long-since exhausted the official supply of archived Connections, I've turned to the streets (fan-made puzzles) to get my fix. These are decidedly bad. The groupings are tenuous, or based on spelling/pronunciation*, or built around specialist knowledge, or rely on outright spelling/comprehens...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
- Sat May 11, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I don't usually share, so you can imagine this is how it works out every day:
Wordle 1,057 2/6
Wordle 1,057 2/6
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: The Hunt for Gollum (Working Title)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 93
Re: Revisiting Rings
This was already done long ago, right? As a fan-made thing?
Edit: Yes, and WB is evidently taking aggressive take-down action against it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 43004.html
Edit: Yes, and WB is evidently taking aggressive take-down action against it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 43004.html
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
Jude, it's a silly internet meme thing, and I was surprised/annoyed to see it show up in what's supposed to be a general knowledge puzzle.
- Fri May 03, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
The Mini was amusing. And Strands was very easy. Extremely hit-and-miss, that one.
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I'm talking about Strands anyway, and the answer is that things have changed since my memory formed. But they also changed before that. There is no truth, everything is relative!
- Wed May 01, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4937
- Views: 427722
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I don't know what it was--with a couple exceptions, it's certainly not how I remember things. Either they're doing some wordplay that went over my head, or things have changed since the last time I checked.