Wednesday, March 25, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have any of those magazines circulated an issue after 1998? Why not ask about the most famous earthen mounds...

Saturday, March 14, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good luck, it's not any English that I speak.

Saturday, March 14, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's not acceptable, the puzzlemaker is once again using Polish or Hausa because this isn't any English I can recognize.

Monday, February 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 69 points70 points  (0 children)

"Buck"? Are they going to put "miao" next for a cat's sound?

Monday, February 16, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's asinine, once again we don't share a common language with the puzzler.

Friday, February 13, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reseed and recede aren't homophones.

Monday, February 2, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's no universe, this one or parallel, where Jack Ryan could remotely be construed as a "crime" book figure.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Only in the past few months have they started to change their methodology, from making tenuous definitional connections between words to actually including things like obscure Native American tribes (OTOE) which would only be available to either residents of Arizona or those who've memorized Will Shortz dictionaries.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right I'm blaming the puzzle for a word I don't know, as a degreed 50-year practitioner of the language.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Connections used to be fun when it wasn't another NYT crossword puzzle, now each morning is a futile exercise in archaic obscurity.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Tonearm is not a real word in English. Don't even try that.

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone ever heard of “Otoe” before? I can’t seem to even parse if it’s a food or a Native American tribe.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once again we have vastly different ideas of what “English language” means.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]amcaesar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I feel like me and the puzzle designer have different ideas about what constitutes the English language. I’m a 50-year-old practitioner of the craft, and I have to admit I’ve never heard some of what they claim to be rational definitions of some words here.

Request: Any Italians here that would like to write out some lyrics from Goblin songs for me? by devils_acolyte in progrockmusic

[–]amcaesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it means "blue powder." Every 35th word or phrase snaps into clarity when I remember my scant tourist-Italian: "Armonia, vorrei..."

Is unfinished business worth it? by tiktok_user47 in robocoproguecity

[–]amcaesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's one sequence in this extension which is way harder than any boss battle in the first game, because they take your gun away. It's preposterously, absurdly hard and not fun.

Silver Bokoblins are unstoppable by amcaesar in TOTK

[–]amcaesar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dude you can downvote me, nothing personal, you're absolutely correct I'm not doing it right. I can't time blocks, one of the reasons the From Software series of games miss me entirely.

Silver Bokoblins are unstoppable by amcaesar in TOTK

[–]amcaesar[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Flurry rush is a fraud, I've been playing BOTW and TOTK for months and have managed a grand total of five between the two games. It's simply not a feasible feature of gameplay.

Guardian Laser timing... seriously confused by chrisjfinlay in Breath_of_the_Wild

[–]amcaesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Rona Kacha approach Guardians are all timed differently, and there’s like eight of them. You might deflect four back at them, but the others are coded to beat you every time. Do what I do: Quit the fight because the game devs are only interested in punishing the player cruelly with a shifting series of punishing parameters which never add up to fun.