Daily Octordle #620
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Score: 65
The unlimited practice mode on this one is good:
Marina - I Am Not A Robot
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0CpPrkRJA
WordAll #568 completed in 1m 32s (these ones have been difficult recently. I think they have had difficult sets of words and I have been getting tense before playing them).
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 839 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #623 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #637 4/6 (logic)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #635 💀/6 (reasons to change starting words 101. But it was obvious)
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Framed #574 Nah. Watched the first half of Union with David Olusoga and it was good but necessarily relatively light because people do PhDs in the subjects involved. I have nothing against the ordinary people commenting on it, in the TV show, but I don't feel they add much other than the start of "an Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman, and a Scotsman walked into a TV show and were united by their superficial understanding of the subject*" joke.
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* I had 2 Welsh history teachers at school so maybe they'e at least more likely to be history teachers. Are positive stereotypes racist? Possibly. One of the history teachers was occasionally menacing, hadn't fully understood the memo on corporal punishment, was mad keen on rugby, a wheeler dealer, and just about sane, if that helps. He was a really good teacher. One of my dead nans was Welsh so I can legit be 1/4th racist about it.
1788-L - Xenoclone (to me this track represents a synthesis of the most underground-ish EDM, with a slight European bias, I've heard from the last three decades from breakbeat hardcore through to drum and bass and onward to neurofunk incorporating many diverse styles of electronic music. It's orchestral and has classical elements*. It's clever. A good musician. Good album. Probably not to everyone's tastes, but what is? Probably some 'form of toast' - which is a Platonic ideal.)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwkhjUQTsY
WordAll #567 completed in 6m 03s (very annoying. First three words in about 30 seconds. Totally blanked on the last. My mind is elsewhere in several places at once. 2/10 feeling rough. I get this the next day after a flu vaccine. Luckily it's not that bad and I'll be fine after breakfast.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 838 5/6* (of arse. 1/3 chance on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #622 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #637 4/6 (1/3 chance on 3)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #634 4/6 (ok)
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Framed #573 (should have gotten this film in at most two. A recurring theme with their films is at intersection of choice between good, evil and indecision, indecision is often a 'foot in the door' for evil)
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* My grandad, in his 70s, quite like the The Prodigy Experience and some of the XL Recordings Chapters, in the early to mid 1990s because he saw an overlap with classical music in some of their tracks. He also liked Guy Mitchell and Frank Sinatra and Top of The Pops. He was cremated so technically he's everywhere now given the sheer numbers of molecules in his body. Not in person, obviously.
Not the best strategy but that often leads to more interesting games (as well as often lower scores, but at least it was interesting).
Daily Octordle #618
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🕐
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Score: 71
Got flu vaccinated. I had COVID before and I got lucky and didn't have it all that badly (weird hyperosmia/more delicious food that I eventually got used to and devil's arse of a sore throat aside) but I think it softened me up for flu a month or so after. Like a delayed secondary infection. With flu I got in bed in the morning and couldn't get back out. I could just about stagger/shuffle downstairs, severely aching like cramp, 3am the next day, and in terms of unpleasantness it's up there. I think COVID may be a seriously underrated factor in regards of flu*. A kind of 1-2 punch. So, basically, I didn't have to have a flu vaccine, but got one because of the prevalence of COVID. I don't qualify for a COVID booster and I'm not going to pay for it privately.
Suede - Beautiful Ones
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OTZ-RsjQTDA
WordAll #566 completed in 2m 25s
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 837 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #621 2/6 (100%) (I did know this one because it's nearby where the UK government wants to fly failed asylum seekers. To show, some, voters how metal they are on boat people. It's basically Australia's fault. One minute they're doing one armed pull-ups down the park and then the Australian ambassador came along and crushed a can of Fanta with their arse cheeks, and it spiralled to Nauru. We've one upped then by doing something as silly. It's all fun and games until they're racing backwards around the one way system down the Westfield.)
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La palabra del día #636 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #633 5/6 (A big but arse but 1/4 - I think - chance on 2.)
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Framed #572 (nah. I watched the first two episodes of The Continental which should be rated 18 for violence. It is comic book violence and necessarily unrealistic, but with that in mind, it is good if only for further expanding (in somewhat obvious ways), on the John Wick universe. If Mel Gibson casually had his dick out it would be an 18 rating. Smashes a muggle's head in with a golf club and it's a 15 rating.)
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New blog posts, a small Wordle solver library in pure Rust:
https://notupf.uber.space/blog/wordle/
I don't use solvers but it was interesting to make a barebones one; if only to understand more about how I think about wordle type puzzles. It's almost exactly like that with a couple of Mutex wrappers and a list processed in parallel.
I forgot to post my WordAll score on Monday but IIRC it was about 1min 9s.
I do like this one because it rewards strategy and slowing down:
Daily Octordle #617
6️⃣3️⃣
🕐9️⃣
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4️⃣🕚
Score: 61
Iain Woods - When Particles Collide
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDQR8Yp7vg
WordAll #565 completed in 5m 22s (mucked this up because I got the first two so easily. As it turned out the last two were totally obvious but I blanked. It happens.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 836 4/6* (ok)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #620 4/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #635 4/6 (ok)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #632 4/6 (ok)
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Framed #571 (nah. Haven't watched much TV in the last 24hrs because I've been busy primarily through distractions.)
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Ariel Pink* - Artifact
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=afH0TlHvEk4
Wordle 835 6/6* (1/5 choice on 5, 1/4 on 6, so very close to failure)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #619 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #634 5/6 (should have got this in four because there's an Italian band that have this in their name who are good - with UFO in front - a major spoiler if you're Italian or use a search engine or know who they are like me. I avoid looking a wordle/puzzle stuff until I've done them all (usually just before I get out of bed)).
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #631 3/6
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Framed #570 (nah. On the plus side a great chunk of, probably ok-ish to great, movies are unknown to me and I will enjoy them in the future. Probably. Some of them are bound to be good. I'll probably loathe some of them.)
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* I don't remotely wish Ariel Pink dead because it goes against deeply held beliefs, and he's probably a human in person, but I think Ezra Furman or Jeffrey Lewis are entirely unaware of my imagined renditions of them singing "If Ariel Pink was dead" in which they talk about being able to recommend Worn Copy without problems. Hauntology overlaps with comments about film yesterday†.
† Now is amazing, or at least quite interesting, or extrapolating further, now is, at a minimum, there. Pure nostalgia is very dangerous because it ignores all the shit.
It's an obvious thought, because it's obvious and if it's obvious then it's not original, but it was made in isolation: the association between temporal distance and particular mediums has to stop at some point. Sepia toned, or black & white or, washed out, colours connoting age are going to be orphaned connotations when nobody remembers why washed out tones or sepia are supposed to look old. Pixel art is a counterfactual argument and the teacup and 'saucer' shows that an orphaned concept can get along just fine by itself. Which really only leaves fashion and technology as true connotations for the age of media. Assuming at some point the recording medium 'peaks'*. Maybe a TV in the background with Rishi Sunak or local equivalent giving a speech about something important. Seems a bit lazy. Maybe at some point the past in film will be the past with somewhat different but similar shit. Probably more accurate that way.
* Not quite as dumb as it sounds given Nyquist-Shannon and 48KHz plus recording and the facts about human audio perception. Modern vinyl records come from digital masters so we can cosplay the past and because they can be mastered to sound better (in the digital domain - so they sound better in the analogue domain. There is an irony.)
My internal "please don't let there be more than six episodes per series in Brazil" has been answered with "yes, there are only six episodes per series in Brazil". Which is nice. Finished the available episodes of Gen V (up to episode 3 in the UK). Back to episode 5 of The Chosen One. Not sure if I'll continue with series 2 because of the finite nature of biological time.
Le Butcherettes - Normal, you were
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=fTO2jdBVPkU
WordAll #563 completed in 1m 09s
🟩🟩🟩🟩 👈 perfect game!
wordall.xyz
Wordle 834 5/6* (I like the recent Wordle choices because, for me at least, they're a little trickier. I think they may be easier for some people)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #618 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #633 5/6 (this was a little dumb of me. Should have been at maximum 4.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #630 3/6
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Framed #569 (nah. Saw up to EP 2 of Gen V and looked up the ages of the female leads to make sure I wasn't going a bit Russell Brand. I spent most of the day watching Thomas The Tank Engine with an autistic nephew. I didn't look up the age of Nia, Hong-Mei and Mavis)
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Gen V is, and I'm only a little bit in, very good. Not sure if it'd make too much sense for people who haven't seen The Boys but I don't think it'd be too much of an impediment. I don't have Netflix on my phone, which I'm glad about because I'd be watching The Chosen one which is definitely worse. It's Marvel for people who aren't keen on Marvel.
Anat Ben-David - Countess Lovelace (I like ladder filters - like on this beat - the cheaper and least exclusive the better. I like people who use what's there. Like the A-Team.)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zhQJyIDbo
WordAll #562 completed in 1m 14s (I am being rudely reminded I have sinuses and a spine, and did this one last. Cheated a smidgen by looking up the spelling of my starting word before I began, but I knew what to look up and didn't look up any of the others. Add a minute time penalty or disqualify, if it matters.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 833 X/6* (yeah, well. I'm not going to call the NYT wordle designer an arsehole - I'm the arsehole)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #617 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #632 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #629 5/6 (arse)
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Framed #568 (nah. I haven't really watched much TV this week between rugby and been somewhat busy. Life conspired to make a kitschy Netflix Brazilian supernatural jungle drama seem attractive. Eventually I'll get around to watching it again and will inevitably be as disappointed with myself as the TV show but had some fun on the way and we're all basically happy if not a little ashamed of ourselves.)
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Very annoying but also enjoyably tricky. Generally with these things words with repeat letters are ranked below words with unique letters, in order of guess probability. The Sky Q box wordle type game inverts that on hard. I'm beginning to suspect the Britannica Octordordle is similar.
Daily Octordle #613
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Score: 71
Reading about John Kricfalusi (the creator of Ren & Stimpy) and bloody hell, it's news to me. That makes it very difficult to separate art from the artist. Impossible even with that knowledge in mind. I think it is good that he's been exposed because it makes it harder for him to do that again, because he's lost that iconic status and gives the people involved acknowledgment, which must help with their healing. I don't think his behavior shouldn't be exposed to preserve memories of Ren & Stimpy, because he did it and deserves opprobrium. Some awful people made great art and I think if we acknowledge that it helps realistically assess great artists moving forward.
Rafter - No ****ing Around (mucking, ducking, clucking, bucking, rucking, rocking, docking, locking, cocking. All roads lead to Rome.)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7FfBCJn1q4U
WordAll #561 completed in 1m 59s (freaked a little because two words I think are words were, luckily, excluded by the first word I chose. I don't want to spoiler it)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 832 5/6* (arse. Although I think people who got this in 4 did a good job.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #616 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #631 4/6 (OK. Like most bowls of muesli are OK. )
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #628 4/6 (yeah. I don't have milk with muesli because by lunchtime I'd be eligible for the farting Olympics. By some people's logic I'm clearly not light skinned enough at the skin colour known as 'ghost pig')
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Framed #567 (Nah. The Ren & Stimpy show started late 1991. It was shown at about 6:30pm on Mondays on BBC Two in 1994. As a part of DEF II.)
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Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUqreTtn-A
WordAll #560 completed in 2m 36s (A tough one. I'm in 4/10 pain. Like dealing with a 4 year old who has decided they want to fill a paddling pool with hot water because it's cold outside and is quite determined about it.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 831 5/6* (arse. Randomised my starting word out of boredom. Had I used the usual it would, at most, be 4. That's by and by. It's a 5.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #615 3/6 (100%) (cheated repeatedly.)
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La palabra del día #630 4/6 (mostly logic. Acceptarseble.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #627 3/6 (sometimes a limited, basically absorbed, rather than learned, vocabulary pays off. The exception rather than the rule though.)
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Framed #566 (nah. Didn't watch much yesterday. I saw Bargain Hunt. Back in that show's early days I was complicit in calling that show, affectionately I might add, Bargain *unt. And David Dickinson seems alright and I can't see David Dickinson starting a rumble channel. If he did it would be a The Real Deal and a bargain. Unless that Panorama is about him. In which case back in that show's early days ...)
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/beta_ubuntu_fedora/
But i3 window manage spins ftw (I really think the Manjaro, community, minimal i3 install is an excellent balance of stuff done for a person while retaining some flexibility and lack of bloat. The Fedora i3 spin is similar but I haven't used that anywhere near as much. i3 with Manjaro has been my desktop of choice for over 3 years now with little or no unnecessary crap to deal with):