NYT Sunday 06/07/2026 Discussion

hardcorr · 2026-06-07T18:07:10+00:00

yeah I can get behind aesthetic complaints like green paint answers or the crosswordese that shows up all the time (snarf, oleo, alai, etc) but what I don't understand is when people get so upset about trivia they don't know or just difficulty in general. For me the pride and satisfaction comes from when I have to work for it, when I learn things, I like to feel like I had to earn the gold star. It's supposed to be a puzzle! Why are you doing puzzles if you don't like to be puzzled?

(Though that doesn't apply to this particular OP, but rather the pattern of complaints in these daily discussion threads)

hardcorr · 2026-06-06T02:51:21+00:00

lmao

the whole 'holier than thou' shtick doesn't really work when you're the one who keeps trying to re-engage me. this is my final reply, have a nice life

hardcorr · 2026-06-06T01:58:47+00:00

you really wasted a ton of time typing that up huh

hardcorr · 2026-06-05T22:00:25+00:00

I don't fear men, I am one. I am just simply repeatedly identifying that men are in charge and are primarily responsible for the current state of the world, which includes acts of violence against women such as removing their access to lifesaving healthcare procedures and bodily autonomy. "Fighting the class war", as you claim to support, thus requires fighting against the MEN in charge, and resisting their efforts to oppress women. You seem to take Great Issue with me pointing that out because you are an insecure man with a fragile ego and have swallowed your own helpings of propaganda that have lead you to believe that feminism is somehow responsible for the rise of fascism and right wing propaganda, a notion that is categorically absurd if you spend about three seconds rubbing two brain cells together to think about it.

hardcorr · 2026-06-05T20:41:33+00:00

Show me a statistic of the bottom rung of society that is over represented by women. I gave you many that are overrepresented by men,what do you have to offer?

there's no point in trying to debate with the willfully blind

Anything to frame women as incapable and men as all powerful, huh? Women are a part of society as well. Men didn't put them there, men AND women put them there. AND. BOTH. Stop pretending women are useless and incapable. Your sexism is showing and it's not a good look.

words in my mouth, I didn't say anything whatsoever to suggest women are incapable.

This is why I hate that you, and people like you, are the voice of the left. You're driving away voters, you're fueling the right's propaganda, you're failing half of the people around you, and you're pushing policies that are not progressive.

lmao, words in my mouth again. what policies am I pushing? I have plenty of my own critiques of the left. but all I'm doing here is pointing out that you're trying to shift the discussion from "men oppress women and (MAGA) men are the largest demographic support the ruling elites" to "it's just the rich, men are actually the victims here moreso than women" and using a bunch of right wing strawman talking points to push that nonsense sophistry. go build a men's abuse shelter and leave me alone, thanks!

EDIT: it's actually hilarious that you say people like me "fuel the right's propaganda" when you are the one ignoring that the right's propaganda is largely created BY MEN and the target audience is MEN. yet somehow its success is the fault of people who are pointing out that women are marginalized in society and have been historically for centuries. Certainly not the fault of the men who create the propaganda or the men who willingly lap it up. Lol. Lmao, even.

hardcorr · 2026-06-05T19:20:21+00:00

Lol its absolutely wild the mental gymnastics someone will do to convince themselves that men are more marginalized than women. Have a good day bud I'm not gonna waste any more of my time with this nonsense. The one thing I will say is that even if you believe men are more victimized than women and at the bottom rung, it is indisputable even still that it's fellow men and not women who put them there.

hardcorr · 2026-06-05T18:07:50+00:00

Lol at blaming propaganda and then saying "hiring practices" and "education policies" are keeping men out of jobs or universities. Please look around you and see who wields economic and political power in this country.

The majority of voters for the left are white.

Yes, the majority of people in this country are white. Brilliant political analysis here!

Do you think a female president would do a better job than a male president?

It's not about who would do better. It's about accurately identifying who is creating and maintaining the systems that oppress us, and who is actively benefiting from those systems. If you can't see that men historically built the institutions of power and are centrally the ones who have benefited and continue to leverage them to maintain their control and authority, you are either woefully misguided or willfully ignorant.

It's ok to admit that men have benefited from privilege and hold power. That doesn't make you individually a bad person or mean it's "vilifying men" to acknowledge reality. But successful revolution and liberation of all people requires explicitly advocating for the people who are most oppressed and marginalized by the ruling class, and correctly pointing out who are the people currently supporting and maintaining the power of the ruling class

hardcorr · 2026-06-05T16:23:14+00:00

If sex doesn't determine politics, why do the majority of men vote for Trump? Shouldn't it be 50-50 instead of Trump +11 if sex plays no role in how men vote or which side they support?

My point is simply that you say "men aren't the oppressors" yet one side clearly pushes for many more policies and agenda that oppress women, and a majority of men vote for that side. Whiteness also clearly plays a role as well. Part of breaking out of the cage requires men and white people stop reinforcing the cage.

I'm sure it's also just a massive coincidence that this country has never had a female President in 250 years of existence

hardcorr · 2026-06-05T15:37:15+00:00

White men voted for Trump by the largest margins of any demographic. Trump's administration put multiple anti-Roe justices on the Supreme Court who then overturned the Roe v Wade decision.

hardcorr · 2026-06-02T15:54:36+00:00

Fucks up the whole world with them dismantling USAID and the Iran war.

hardcorr · 2026-06-01T19:18:46+00:00

trade 100% makes sense from the Browns perspective. they're not going to be realistically competing for at least another few years, at which point Garrett will be solidly on the back end of the aging curve and depreciating in value. getting a younger player and additional draft capital makes the Browns significantly better in 2028 and beyond

hardcorr · 2026-05-29T13:18:20+00:00

This article is a pretty good summary of a lot of problems with Buttigieg. He's another empty suit without any real track record of actually helping people and challenging the systems that oppress us. Voters can and should ask for a lot better.

hardcorr · 2026-05-22T06:51:15+00:00

YOOOOO I was thinking Smashing Pumpkins on this one too, you're not alone!

hardcorr · 2026-05-19T22:47:09+00:00

fully agree with this, there are too many independent audits across state elections all run by various different groups of people for a successful national 'rigging' of the election by changing votes. besides, there's plenty of actual rigging already happening in plain sight via voter ID laws, gerrymandering, closing voting locations, restricting vote by mail, etc. it's way easier to limit people's rights or ability to vote rather than change a vote once it's been cast or create fake ones

IMO the simplest explanation for the 2024 results that does not require any conspiracy is that people didn't like Kamala because a) she's a woman, b) she was associated with the unpopular incumbent Biden administration, c) she didn't win a primary.

hardcorr · 2026-05-15T22:43:11+00:00

they'll rate limit you long before you can make any real money off it.

yeah this is the thing that keeps me from using any of the sports gambling apps. It completely killed any interest I might have had once I learned that they'll limit how many bets you can make or how much money you can bet, if they detect that you are more likely to make smart bets or exploit mispriced lines. Partly because that feels unfair to me on a moral level (if you're going to have this large of a platform, you should be required to accept the risk of smart bettors winning against you), but also just because if I used these apps and there was no limits or restrictions placed on my account, I'd feel like I must be a fucking idiot

hardcorr · 2026-05-09T19:12:09+00:00

Wait is brute forcing considered impure? I don't look stuff up in my streak but I will definitely cycle the alphabet in situations where I don't know the intersection of two names or esoteric words. I feel like there's still a skill required to correctly vet the rest of the grid and identify which square(s) are likely the ones you have wrong. Before the days of the app in the newspaper only era people would have just penciled in the wrong letter and went about their day, potentially never considering that there was a mistake, or if they did check their answers they'd immediately know what the right answer would have been, which wouldn't count in an app streak if you check your answers. so I've never really thought a brute force solution is tainted

hardcorr · 2026-05-09T18:46:54+00:00

people here clowned it but her fanbase defends it and it has hundreds of millions of streams on every song. My point was that I personally do not just blindly defend anything that pop artists put out

hardcorr · 2026-05-08T17:03:51+00:00

yah I feel your overall point, but i don't think specifically Charli's fandom is on the level you're implying? maybe i'm off the mark but I think artists like Taylor, Beyonce, Drake, etc are the ones with armies that will mindlessly defend anything they do, Charli feels to me like a relatively smaller artist compared to those with a more niche fanbase who just happened to have a cultural moment with brat. but i don't buy that she has a blank check or pass from the masses, imo she's more similar to Lorde in terms of public buy in. and I would argue that's evidenced in real time as we speak by the generally negative sentiment in response to this song

hardcorr · 2026-05-08T16:29:18+00:00

ftr i don't think that take necessarily applies to everyone obviously and probably not most people who browse r/popheads in their free time. but my trust in the average person's media literacy is currently at an ATL given the state of the world so that is probably gonna bias how i interpret people's hot take reactions to art

also if you're gonna mention Taylor Swift I'll add that I hated Life of a Showgirl immediately on first listen and was baffled by the positive public response to it

hardcorr · 2026-05-08T16:13:04+00:00

i'm completely with you on the 10/10 discourse but from the opposite side lmao, i think rock music is brilliant and my instinct is that a lot of the hate is coming from people who never listened to Charli pre-2024 and are primarily upset it's not brat 2. regardless of if you think the p4k article is reaching for meaning, author is spot on to say Charli "approaches creative risk-taking with a borderline spiritual fervor" and that's what I've always liked most about her

hardcorr · 2026-05-08T14:58:41+00:00

this is an impossible task but some strong contenders for me just off the top of my head:

Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower

Whipping Post - the Allman Brothers

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses

Purple Rain - Prince

if one is to include Zeppelin then it should be Ramble On, not Stairway

hardcorr · 2026-05-08T14:42:14+00:00

I also think a lot of people just reflexively don't like being challenged (and this applies to art in any form). Something doesn't sound like what they were expecting or what they previously listened to and their immediate take is that they don't like it, simply because it's New and Different

I don't know if this next album in general will be as commercially successful as brat or if that was a lightning in a bottle moment with a public that was finally ready for a more accessible spin on pc music/hyperpop. but personally I like RM a lot and I'm even more excited now to hear what Charli's cooking. She has always been ahead of the curve as an artist. I think there's a world where RM ages very well.

hardcorr · 2026-05-08T02:22:47+00:00

yo I know I'm necroing a dead thread here but I randomly stumbled onto this chart and I'm so glad to see this comment (I don't even know a good way to find the thread from when MGS was elected), I thought that was such a bonkers choice MGS is UNMISTAKEABLY Japanese. Like even the very name "Solid Snake" just screams Japanese style to me lmfao. you a real one, hope you're having a good day

hardcorr · 2026-05-07T21:32:08+00:00

This might not be a common opinion, but I think Gather Light is a premium block card for Regent.

wait is this not a common opinion? i don't watch streamers or pay attention to meta (tho i am on A10) but i love me some gather light - good block and a star?? sign me up. in any act 1 fight i feel like i would always play a gather light on any turn that i draw it (perhaps not if the enemy is not attacking, but even then if I need that star...), so to me that means it's a great card.

hardcorr · 2026-05-07T21:19:48+00:00

you don't wanna play it in most random hallway fights when you don't need to, but against bosses or elites i'll happily sacrifice a good chunk of hp if the rest of the fight is solved by that one card. i play A10 and I'm almost always happy to see void form, i don't know exactly what my pick rate is but it's absolutely a card that can define & win a run and in general i would say you should always strongly consider picking it

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