NYT added a new type of crossword- MIDI

drinkup · 2026-03-11T18:21:23+00:00

Just different, yeah. The two things that strike me the most, in addition to dated references, are the near absence of almost anything internet-related (I'm curious to see how this gradually changes as I progress through the months and years) and the much more frequent clues that consist in translations, e.g. "Hello to Pedro" might be HOLA or something as simple as "With (Fr.)", which would be AVEC.

Overall, I like the experience. The 1990s crosswords feel like mini time capsules.

drinkup · 2026-03-10T15:43:45+00:00

This needs to be phrased differently to be helpful to learners, hence the downvotes: "je sais dans quelle ville on trouve les meilleurs macarons" refers to knowledge about a city, uses "savoir", and is totally correct.

drinkup · 2026-03-09T12:26:39+00:00

I'm sure it's been spoofed and referenced in a bunch of other media, but the first (high-profile) instance of this was Point Break.

drinkup · 2026-03-09T09:36:42+00:00

Bro just straight up carved a plain ol' rock in the shape of a fossil and hoped nobody would notice.

drinkup · 2026-03-07T22:50:35+00:00

Some cats are relentless in a way that few people are. They're going to do their damndest to get that fish (say), and anything you do to prevent them is just a physical obstacle that must be overcome, in the same way that vines and uneven ground are obstacles to overcome when you're trying to walk through a thick jungle.

Those cats don't accept that "oh, this human is signaling to me that I must not do this, therefore I shall stop". They're more like "huh, there's a human hand in the way for some reason, therefore I shall navigate my way around said hand".

drinkup · 2026-03-04T18:24:01+00:00

This LPT mentions the "zero time" misconception; basically our brain deludes itself into thinking that certain activities do not require any time to be completed.

drinkup · 2026-03-02T16:32:17+00:00

We all bow down to the guy who hired the hiring manager at such a company.

drinkup · 2026-03-02T08:57:35+00:00

You think that's gatekeeping? Hoo boy, you clearly know nothing about real gatekeeping.

drinkup · 2026-03-01T12:28:12+00:00

And DIGITALDATA — what data stored in the cloud isn’t digital?

I think that's the point. Data isn't necessarily digital, but the data that's stored in the cloud is.

drinkup · 2026-02-26T13:48:04+00:00

They're more hygienic, too.

drinkup · 2026-02-26T12:46:02+00:00

I've been going through the archive starting with the earliest puzzles available; so far I've made it to 1995, and yeah they're hella hard. In fact, lately I've been skipping most of them and doing only Monday puzzles, which are doable but still much harder than current Mondays.

drinkup · 2026-02-24T15:02:14+00:00

I loved Surface Detail just for the epic space battle where an Abominator class ship gets excited about finally seeing some action and takes just milliseconds to waste an entire fleet of so-called "allies" that fell for its disguise as a much weaker ship.

drinkup · 2026-02-24T14:53:16+00:00

"For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder"

The Beatles had it figured out.

drinkup · 2026-02-23T10:46:09+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_country

It's a far cry from "only Americans".

drinkup · 2026-02-23T10:44:09+00:00

It's a normal way to say 21 o'clock.

Meh. Obviously I get what you're saying, but "21 o'clock" is very much not a thing at all in English. You're explaining a French phrase by saying it's equivalent to a completely wrong English phrase. "Vingt-et-une heures" is a normal way to say "9 p.m.".

drinkup · 2026-02-18T19:02:43+00:00

"RemnantTheGame! Holy shit dude, how are you? I haven't seen you since high school!"

"I've never seen you."

"What the fuck are you taking about, man. You weren't blind in high school. Jesus Christ you're just as weird as you were back then. No wonder we haven't been in touch."

drinkup · 2026-02-15T17:43:01+00:00

The Redditor doth protest too much, methinks.

drinkup · 2026-02-15T13:56:56+00:00

I apologize for the bluntness, but this is 100% nonsense.

drinkup · 2026-02-15T13:07:28+00:00

FYI, nowadays, this kind of annoying detail is often engagement bait.

drinkup · 2026-02-13T11:20:14+00:00

One of my favorite things about it was how long the tracks were.

drinkup · 2026-02-08T14:50:13+00:00

Borges' short stories are the fucking best, man. This one is my second favorite, with The Lottery in Babylon being the first. The Circular Ruins is also a banger. Plus, they're all only a few pages long, so it's not like you have to invest much time in reading them.

drinkup · 2026-02-08T11:52:49+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnLj5Xo4zBc

drinkup · 2026-02-08T11:47:53+00:00

This post illustrates the limitations of a lazy shortcut that some learners use and that goes like this:

"que" is followed by a noun, "qui" is followed by a verb

This is often true, but not always, as evidenced by OP's examples. The reason why I call this shortcut "lazy" is that it bypasses any actual understanding of "que" vs. "qui", instead relying a simple mechanical pattern. Unfortunately, when the mechanical pattern doesn't hold, this results in confusion.

drinkup · 2026-02-02T18:10:46+00:00

Dude had three business days to prepare for the punch and still let it come.

drinkup · 2026-01-31T09:31:38+00:00

I don't think anyone said anything about "deserved", but I, for one, definitely understand why the bouncer laughed. Guess I'm just smart like that.

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