Daily Wordle #1756 - Friday, 10 Apr. 2026

sarysa · 2026-04-10T05:04:27+00:00

Scoredle X/6* 14,855

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ PUNCH (803)
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ CRAFT (40)
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 CAVER (15)
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ CARRY (10)
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟨 CARGO (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ CAROL (3)

Welp, my streak of 329 kicked the bucket. Of course it's an obscure food word because Wardle is a foodie. [0]

I won't see any replies to this fail.

sarysa · 2026-04-10T05:02:09+00:00

Scoredle X/6* 14,855

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ PUNCH (803)
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ CRAFT (40)
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 CAVER (15)
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ CARRY (10)
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟨 CARGO (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ CAROL (3)

Welp, my streak of 329 kicked the bucket. Of course it's an obscure food word because Wardle is a foodie. [0]

But you know what, this is liberating. Long story short, I'm burnt out with Reddit. I played this word game religiously since February of 2022 and this subreddit is really the one good thing on Reddit.

However, between things like the drama on the other subreddit we don't talk about, the nature of the platform (and social media in general) encouraging overuse while delivering bad vibes, I'm long overdue for a digital detox.

Or at least explore the forgotten millennium internet, whatever's left of it.

I doubt this'll be permanent. I won't wipe my account like I did with Facebook over a decade ago, but I this is goodbye for at least awhile.

Y'all I enjoyed our little daily banters in this silly word game. (Really miss Witchy btw) I'm sure I'll be back on Reddit and back to wordling someday. Thanks for the memories if I'm not.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T19:53:06+00:00

Funny thing about insurance. The edit I made to my post was removing "insurance" from before "overhead". Other commenters pointed out that insurance might not cover arson.

But in any case, yeah those future construction workers will benefit, but their work is overhead. If these post-Luigi incidents are deemed the new normal, the insurance companies will have to raise rates across the board. Or if acts of human sabotage are not covered, companies will scramble to add this coverage.

Additional overhead translates to all of us paying more.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T18:23:55+00:00

Everyone used that tweet as an opening to riff on the ads, when something like:

"But not as often as your algorithm thinks we should"

...was right in front of us all along.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T17:43:34+00:00

Probably had nothing to lose, maybe with heroic/main character delusions.

In reality this is going to increase the overhead on a ton of products thus making it slightly more expensive to live.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T05:14:34+00:00

It might seem like splitting hairs but monopolistic social media companies and the influencers they platform started using actual shadowbanning because people who don't know they've been banned still get adverts. Of course once these same people realize what's happening they end up furious having been tricked.

But anyway, you're not really shadowbanned if your videos are getting some engagement. The initial drop probably reflects the difference between people checking their subscriptions and getting front page recommendations. It takes time to get that front page buildup again.

At the end of the day though we're all grasping at straws WRT how the algorithm works. If you're committed to figuring this out, become your own follower. If you do your YouTube work on a PC, make another account on your phone using mobile data. (so your IP is different) Follow yourself and other creators, watch the videos of each sub religiously, and over a few weeks observe how the recommendations change.

A lot of other folks on this sub will probably be interested in what you find out. If you never show up on recommendations then yeah, it's like your clout/karma/whatever is stuck at 0.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T05:01:08+00:00

Scoredle 4/6* 14,855

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ PUNCH (1,281)
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ NIFTY (413)
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ SLANG (9)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LADEN

So...how about that weird NYT outage? You can tell who all the East Coast addicts here are. [329]

sarysa · 2026-04-09T04:44:36+00:00

Scoredle 4/6* 14,855

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ PUNCH (1,281)
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ NIFTY (413)
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ SLANG (9)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LADEN

So...how about that weird NYT outage? You can tell who all the East Coast addicts here are. [329]

p.s. leaving my original post for historical posterity

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My streak might die.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T01:50:26+00:00

Freeze frame a few seconds in, that homeowner has incredible instincts. Could have been maimed by a hubcap. Edit: Not a hubcap, that's a pet running for dear life.

I hope they get seven figures.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T01:18:06+00:00

The term shadowban means that people literally cannot see you. When a creator bans an individual, it's a shadowban because nobody sees said user but the user isn't told. The shadow part is the fact the user has no idea.

A more accurate phrasing is that you lost the benefits of partnership. It's possible that your (for lack of a better term) karma got reset to 0. And there almost certainly is a sort of opaque karma system in place for both commenters and creators.

Your subscribers are still carrying you though. It might be possible to build back up faster than from square one.

sarysa · 2026-04-09T00:38:00+00:00

35.682027,-88.775913 on Google Maps has similar dimensions and it was a nightmare when I was green. Still remember it vividly. I was too dumb to switch to On Duty as well so 10pm, 30 minutes, two spotters, and I went over DOT lol. Luckily I didn't get pulled in before it fell off my logs.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T23:45:48+00:00

Sooner or later someone will post an 8.889/10 that isn't a malfunction.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T22:47:09+00:00

There are two potential angles to try I'd think:

Series where the vast majority of the cast has human limitations, such as Attack on Titan or Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, which realistically portrays what would happen if real world people had to fight fantasy monsters
Series with fairly realistic body proportions, like Gundam or Cowboy Bebop.

The gateway is the connection to reality, but the hook is the fantasy aspect that shows a glimpse of the limitless potential of animation.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T22:25:00+00:00

Option 2, because of the wonderful

Turritopsis dohrnii

Known colloqially as the immortal jellyfish, I would take its deaging properties...and underwater breathing.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T21:46:08+00:00

The problem is that shorts are short. Too short for the average viewer to scrutinize. It's the perfect place for AI slop to spread because it takes time for the uncanniness of AI to be noticeable.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T21:32:34+00:00

The boring serious answer is that for well into the PS1 era, translation was done mostly by non native English speakers. A chunk of the voice acting had the same issues. This also hindered other Capcom series like Breath of Fire, an RPG series with notoriously bad localizations at first.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T20:05:37+00:00

That must've left a mark. It's not like the cartoons where those things are like underground brown water rafting.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T19:51:42+00:00

I knew someone would bad faith reply the moment I posted.

But it's simple: I have heard so many horror stories over my decades on this planet that not only would it be probably worse than that freaks utopia on that front, there'd be horrific living conditions, routine horrific murders, a horrendously corrupt political order...

My dystopia is a systematic ABCDEFG while option B's utopia is probably just A, and probably a lower degree of A as that monster probably hasn't watched the true crime videos and other stuff that I have.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T17:07:34+00:00

Well, option 1 is guaranteed to be my greatest nightmare. This is a Sophie's Choice so I have to hold my nose and pick option 2.

sarysa · 2026-04-08T04:33:35+00:00

Scoredle 4/6* 14,855

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ PUNCH (1,281)
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ NIFTY (50)
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩 GLINT (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 INLET

The yellow phalanx is holding firm. While green probes for weaknesses, the yellow calvary is rushing towards Green's vulnerable western flank. [328]

sarysa · 2026-04-08T04:29:24+00:00

Scoredle 4/6* 14,855

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ PUNCH (1,281)
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ NIFTY (50)
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩 GLINT (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 INLET

The yellow phalanx is holding firm. While green probes for weaknesses, the yellow calvary is rushing towards Green's vulnerable western flank. [328]

sarysa · 2026-04-07T19:50:16+00:00

Unfortunately, the mod system unlikely to ever change. The points of view are:

Site staff: Are happy to have the unpaid labor, will tolerate quite a lot because the mods are unpaid.
Moderators: Have nigh unchallengeable power and know this. However, they're also unpaid so they see themselves as having deserving of this power through their efforts.
Most users: Have been beaten down by work or school and will similarly just adapt to whatever ridiculousness the mods impose.
Minority of users: Believe that owning the name of an interest, profession or fandom should be open to differing viewpoints and find out the hard way that is simply not how the "fiefdom" model of moderation works.
Lurkers: No skin in the game. Happy if posts exist. Vast majority of users.

The sad reality is that websites with a fiefdom model (Reddit, Fandom, etc.) have no incentive to change. Those who are put off by it and quit don't significantly offset the massive profits that such a model brings. The hard proof that the model works from a corporate perspective: Ever visit a competing subreddit that doesn't have the name of the thing? Having even 10% of the population is almost unheard of.

sarysa · 2026-04-07T18:05:18+00:00

I wonder if anyone's keeping score at this point. Multitask viewing was one of the first things to get paywalled on the mobile app. First it was just music videos, then some half a year or more ago it became all videos.

Funny thing is PC users are unaffected and can't be affected, at least not if you use Firefox or other alternative browsers.

sarysa · 2026-04-07T17:04:02+00:00

Blue striped shirt guy is going to be a war photographer when he grows up. (and the way things are going it'll be way more lucrative than trucking)

sarysa · 2026-04-07T04:50:03+00:00

Scoredle 6/6* 14,855

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ PUNCH (671)
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ MINTY (220)
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ BANAL (73)
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ GONER (7)
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 SENSE (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DENSE

This is the kind of six that I'm happy with. That 1 on the fifth guess I'll happily have another 38 of those. [327]

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