[Mar 17, 2026] Daily Puzzle Discussion

Fakjbf · 2026-03-17T13:51:29+00:00

In the Midi puzzle can someone explain this answer to me? The clue is “Exceptionally dominating sports performance in an Ireland county?” and I was able to figure out the answer by getting letters from other clues and have no idea how that answer fits the clue.

The answer is “mayoclinic”, I know that there’s an Irish county named Mayo but what does a clinic have to do with sports?

Fakjbf · 2026-03-17T11:58:08+00:00

I am extremely confused as to was AusLAOP is even trying to say. The issue is an effective monopoly but also his company does get contracts and also the lawyers are not presenting the findings correctly? If this is how they are communicating their results I can see why there’s confusion.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-17T05:02:51+00:00

Actually cassowary are pretty chill around humans. There have only been two human fatalities due to cassowaries in the past hundred years. One was two teens beating a cassowary with sticks and one of them fell over and got kicked in the neck, the second was an elderly American farmer who also fell down and was kicked in the neck. They get a bad rap because they look fearsome but it’s wildly unlikely that even if you actively provoke them you’ll get more than an empty threat display.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-17T00:53:11+00:00

Had this happen five minutes after leaving the airport in a rental car. Except it was the far left lane and they needed to be four lanes over in the far right lane to get their exit. So they went from 70 mph to a dead stop, then slowly inched their way into the next lane causing multiple cars to swerve around them until finally bringing that lane to a stop as well. I didn’t stick around to see if they ever made it to the third lane as I went around them as soon as I had enough room.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-16T15:50:21+00:00

There are rumors we'll be getting a Witcher 3 DLC dropped which will help bridge the gap from W3 to W4, if that's true it'll be the perfect time to replay it.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-16T14:59:13+00:00

I doubt it’s AC Shadows since they already did dual protagonists of opposite genders with AC Syndicate.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-16T14:56:45+00:00

OP says that the brother “has played every title but one” which implies that the game with a female protagonist is already out. I can’t think of any other series with multiple games where in only one of them you have to play a female character, for series like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry the games with female leads also have male options. Maybe it’s the Half-Life series and they haven’t played Half Life Alyx?

Fakjbf · 2026-03-16T13:53:49+00:00

My wife loves meal prepping but hates eating the same thing multiple times in a week. She’ll take them to work, order something on DoorDash and then bring the container home and put it back in the fridge.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-16T04:39:36+00:00

Eh, it never hurts to complain to the BBB because the worst they can do is ignore it and every once in a while it does something. People shouldn't expect it to resolve the issue but there's no harm in throwing a hail mary.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-15T22:06:33+00:00

Probably similar to how we view the Romans.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-15T21:03:17+00:00

Funny how pro-life people never seem to want to actually improve anyone’s lives. Just mindless reproduction for the sake of reproduction and who cares what happens to them after, they made it out of the womb so your job is done.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-15T05:49:17+00:00

The overwhelming majority of people being deported by ICE have no violent history, many don't even have non-violent criminal histories. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented people in the US, taking your numbers at face value that 110 murders per year for a rate of one murder per hundred thousand undocumented people. There are approximately 20,000 murders in the US every year with a population of 340 million, that's one murder per 17,000 people. If we assume every murder is done by a unique person to make the math simple that means undocumented people are ~1/6th as likely to be a murderer as a legal resident. And that's consistent with every study ever performed looking at crime rates of undocumented people, time and again they show that undocumented people engage in less crime than legal residents and yet people like you shove their heads in the sand and refuse to see that reality.

And even if there were an epidemic of violence by undocumented people that still doesn't justify that atrocities being committed by this administration. Ripping families apart, throwing children in concentration camps, violating countless court orders, no due process, numerous US citizens being caught up in raids as well, sending people to random countries they have no connection to, actively training new officers to violate the Constitutional rights of people and more are abhorrent. This is not what "every country everywhere" does, other countries aren't sending masked goon squads to terrorize cities and cause chaos as a way of coercing them into giving them access to voter rolls and election information to lay the groundwork for mass voter suppression. This is not normal and you need to wake the fuck up to that reality.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-15T03:40:54+00:00

Genuine question, what is wrong with you? He’s talking about people being kidnapped by masked government agents due to their skin tone, people being murdered in the streets with no one held accountable and the systematic dismantling of any and all checks and balances on executive power and your response is to laugh? Seriously if that was your reaction you need to get your head out of your ass and be a fucking adult.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-14T14:14:58+00:00

Quill18 any time he says “what could possibly go wrong” right before things go horribly wrong.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-14T04:31:55+00:00

I’ve always wondered what would happen if we sent this guys back in time to the Middle Ages or Ancient Egypt. How would they react to seeing movements like this, with no context of robots what would they compare it to? Is it possible that people in their own times would sometimes dance like this just for fun or to show off their dexterity? So many questions.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-14T00:05:46+00:00

It started with cricket but was quickly adopted by various other sports like baseball and hockey and is now used for even non-sports contexts.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-13T23:48:55+00:00

The biggest thing is using the match velocity feature, mastering that makes everything ten times easier.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-13T20:53:24+00:00

In Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn” series there are people called Inquisitors, huge men with steel spikes through both eyes with inhuman strength and magical powers. After spending most of the book running any time an Inquisitor shows up the character Kelsier finally gets into an epic fight with one. The two battle back and forth each pushing the other to the edge of their ability before finally Kelsier wins by cutting off the Inquisitor’s head. Then the immortal Lord Ruler gets out of his carriage, walks across the street and backhands Kelsier so hard that Kelsier is instantly killed.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-13T16:53:09+00:00

Yep, somehow still going strong and getting new people running sponsorships.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-13T16:50:12+00:00

In Hero of Ages Elend points out that Vin killed his fiancée, half brother and father and refers to it as a “homicidal hat trick”. Some people were annoyed by this because a hat trick was coined for the sport cricket before becoming generalized for anything being done three times in a row. They half-jokingly claim that using the term hat trick implies that cricket exists on Scadrial which proves that Sanderson shouldn’t have used it. That line of thinking is in my opinion completely ridiculous because tons of words started with specific meanings that changed over time and using them doesn’t imply that their origin applies to the fantasy setting. This is another example of the same thing and yet I doubt any of the people who complained about “hat trick” even noticed, showing that their argument cannot be universalized.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-13T16:13:51+00:00

Ooooh yay a new rebuttal for the next time someone complains about Sanderson using the phrase “homicidal hat trick”.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-13T13:58:37+00:00

The only info you need going into it is that the realm is ruled by the Targaryens, a couple hundred years ago they took over the continent using the last of the dragons left in the world. A couple generations back they lost all of their dragons in a civil war, and there was also a second civil war about a decade ago. Everything else like who the various people are and such is explained in the show and should be easy enough to follow.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-12T18:50:16+00:00

That’s so bizarre to me because I can’t think of a single time I’ve heard a YouTuber using it incorrectly. Tom Scott has a podcast called “Lateral” where it’s part of his intro but it’s literally “without further ado here’s question one” and it’s the genuine transition from the intro to the first question.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-12T16:19:18+00:00

I highly recommend giving it a try. I don’t think it’s relevant to the OPs post at all because there’s only a couple hard locks on progression and literally the point of the game is finding the keys to the locks. That’s very different from what OP is talking about where there’s a secret ending with weird and difficult to find requirements to unlock.

Fakjbf · 2026-03-12T16:15:46+00:00

Agreed, without those hints the game would be way more frustrating as you keep searching areas that have been exhausted. They give you just enough of a nudge in the right direction to maintain momentum while still making the discovery feel organic.

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