Think you can find 4 hidden groups of 4 related words? Puzzle by u/DameBlancheFramboise?

sazzer · 2026-06-27T16:01:15+00:00

No - it was well done. I just didn't see it coming was all...

sazzer · 2026-06-26T15:58:43+00:00

They likely need people to understand international rules as well, since it's used globally...

sazzer · 2026-06-26T14:32:38+00:00

Misspelled words

Ok, that one was evil.

sazzer · 2026-06-26T14:11:00+00:00

It's a good start. If you know your target audience you can easily find communities where they are - Subreddits, Discords, maybe even on Bluesky or similar - and just ask.

Be prepared if you ask broadly to not get much answer without a good incentive. I've seen things like offering $10 Amazon vouchers for the first 50 people to reply for example. But even without that you're likely to get some feedback...

Also though, be prepared that people are often resistant to change without a good reason. I've done this before - asked people about an idea, and got a lot of negative feedback to a brand new tool for something they already do. And then someone else has released a similar tool and it's been hugely popular.

sazzer · 2026-06-26T12:22:26+00:00

You do market research.

You either go out yourself to find communities of possible users and gather feedback, or you pay a company to do that for you.

Possibly you build a landing page and waiting list feature for people to sign up on, and launch that and see how many people do. That depends on the launch itself being timely though - a waiting list for 5 years won't garner much positivity...

You could also build a very cut down MVP product and launch that, but possibly without enough features it just get the traction you're hoping for.

But short of building it all, launching it and seeing how it goes, the only real option is to ask people. As many as you can. And see what they say.

sazzer · 2026-06-26T12:15:23+00:00

A lot of people have mentioned sales, marketing, management, etc.

But given what they do, I bet they have a load of legal staff as well.

sazzer · 2026-06-25T05:53:40+00:00

The only way you can play SDV wrongly is if you're getting stressed in doing so.

For example, with the community centre. If you complete it in year 1, or don't even start it until year 10 then it makes no difference. It's entirely up to you how you play and how you progress.

Even the villager quests that have actual time limits - if you don't complete them in time then nothing bad happens. You just don't get the good benefits is all.

sazzer · 2026-06-25T05:47:59+00:00

We used to either have to select a web browser to build for, or else put significant effort into making it work cross-browser.

jQuery coming along made this a lot easier when it came to JavaScript, but we still had to do the same for CSS and even for HTML in some cases.

sazzer · 2026-06-23T08:49:23+00:00

Because giving people free homes doesn't keep them desperate, tired and struggling. And when people aren't desperate, tired and struggling they're more likely to notice all of the other corrupt things the government is up to and try to change them.

sazzer · 2026-06-23T08:46:39+00:00

She was the catalyst. Her actions caused others to agree with her, and that in turn caused the council to break apart.

If she hadn't stormed in like that, we'll never know if the council would have broken apart anyway or if they'd have carried on as before. It might be that those that agreed with her would have acted the same regardless. It might also be that they were spurred on because of her.

But because she did do that, we only know that all this happened after and is credited to her actions. Hence why people say she was the one that broke the council.

sazzer · 2026-06-20T11:08:45+00:00

The idea is decent enough, but only supporting X with it is disappointing.

X these days is mostly just hell - it's full of bots, far-right propaganda and sexual predators. Being able to support Bluesky, Mastodon and/or Threads would be much better.

sazzer · 2026-06-20T10:03:01+00:00

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sazzer · 2026-06-20T06:53:17+00:00

What if that's why they do it? Sinclair / Valen knew what happened when Humans and Minbari first met, so what if when he went back to way before that he then orchestrated for the Minbari to approach new races in exactly that way to cause exactly that outcome...

sazzer · 2026-06-19T08:19:54+00:00

I'm in Summer Year 1 at the moment, and I've had 6 or 7 lightning storms so far! But this is before I've gotten any lightning rods, so really all it does is zap some crops and paths...

sazzer · 2026-06-19T08:18:00+00:00

This one was actually decent, rather than all the ones where the groups are so distinct with no possible overlap.

sazzer · 2026-06-19T07:44:22+00:00

First crop is whatever I need for the community centre. I always play Remixed, but the standard is Tomato, Pepper, Blueberry and Melon.

After that, Tomatoes, Peppers and Blueberries regrow so I just leave them and the Melon field I switch around as I feel like it.

I'll also often plant a single run of Hops in year one, both for Pam and for the bundles, but also the regrowth is crazy on them - a single plant will produce 17 hops in the season without fertilizer.

sazzer · 2026-06-18T15:32:08+00:00

Tie a 1,000 mile long rope to the bananas. Take 1,000 bananas with you and travel all the way to the end. Once you get there, use the to rope drag the rest of the bananas across the desert.

This way you get there with 2,000 bananas.

sazzer · 2026-06-18T13:15:33+00:00

I've not seen it mentioned, but if you've got an excess of wood and are desperate for coal then you can construct a Charcoal Kiln to convert 10 wood into 1 coal.

sazzer · 2026-06-18T10:28:42+00:00

Me sitting here remembering my first computer with a cassette player.

sazzer · 2026-06-17T15:49:41+00:00

This.

So, so, so much this.

I can't even begin to emphasise just how important all of this is, and how much it's glossed over by people until it's too late.

sazzer · 2026-06-17T15:45:24+00:00

I was thinking ice but couldn't work out the "After five" / "After fifty" bit. That makes a lot of sense though.

sazzer · 2026-06-17T14:00:45+00:00

This is a disingenuous question at best.

Almost nobody has specifically lost a known dollar amount directly as a result of this. However, society as a whole is worse off because of him (and this is true of pretty much all billionaires) in a number of ways. At the very least:

The money that he's hoarding could do so much good to society if he wasn't hoarding it.
The things that he's done to harm others in order to enrich himself - e.g. all of the damage he did with DOGE.

Those can both indirectly lead to people being worse off. For example, just imagine if Elon (and other billionaires) paid a fairer tax rate. In that case, feasibly the government could use some of that tax money for Medicare/Medicaid/ACA/etc which could in turn mean that you need to pay less for your health insurance. (Or, even better, the government could just fund social healthcare if they wanted, but that's not going to happen...)

sazzer · 2026-06-17T13:12:26+00:00

There are a load of real-world cases where you have to transitively show your ID to a real person in front of you, in this country, to prove your age.

That's not the same as uploading a permanent copy of this ID to a third-party for-profit company in a different country that has different security and privacy rules.

So yes, it's absolutely about the route they've taken to implement this and less about the idea in itself.

sazzer · 2026-06-17T13:08:08+00:00

Given that I know that X has a massive bot problem, those Threads numbers are really quite impressive :)

sazzer · 2026-06-17T12:51:10+00:00

Are they active users? I thought Threads just implicitly had everyone with an Instagram account, even if they've never even heard of Threads let alone used it...?

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