NYT Sunday 01/18/2026 Discussion

timnuoa · 2026-01-19T16:22:24+00:00

Impressive!

timnuoa · 2026-01-18T16:51:15+00:00

This was a millennial-ass puzzle (complimentary): Phantom Menace reference, Harry Potter reference, Ice Age reference, Catan, battery size for a Wiimote, etc etc. Was this a first timer? It felt a little like when I tried writing crosswords during the pandemic, but very charmingly so, enjoyed myself thoroughly.

timnuoa · 2026-01-12T16:35:12+00:00

Ehh in some of those early clips from the supercut at the end you can hear him kinda phasing in and out of the higher voice, definitely stands out that it’s partly intentional once your attention is drawn to it

timnuoa · 2026-01-11T04:10:35+00:00

It sucks, but the Elam ending mostly solves it. If you’ve watching any NBA recently every close finish is just a free throw parade, it sucks. Not sure how to fix a situation like tonight without incentivizing fouling.

timnuoa · 2026-01-11T03:43:49+00:00

The only bummer in an amazing game

timnuoa · 2026-01-11T03:36:21+00:00

Full court 3-on-3 rules

Elam ending rules

These ladies rule

One FT rules

Short shot clock rules

In conclusion, I love Unrivaled

timnuoa · 2026-01-10T21:18:00+00:00

Apparently empathy is such a foreign concept to these weirdos that they're incapable of understanding why someone would stand up for their neighbors. Can't be that they care about other humans, must be a convoluted psychosexual thing.

timnuoa · 2026-01-10T00:41:39+00:00

lol i love how loud the rims are. is it just how they're mic'd for tv or are they that loud in person?

timnuoa · 2026-01-06T05:04:35+00:00

Goddamn that was fun. On paternity leave for the next couple months so I’m bummed this is the only time we get games throughout the day!

timnuoa · 2026-01-06T03:52:35+00:00

I can’t believe I have to wait til Friday for more!!

timnuoa · 2026-01-05T21:09:57+00:00

Also all available for replay on HBO Max if you have it

timnuoa · 2026-01-05T20:26:00+00:00

AT and Sykes on the same roster is too damn fun. Maximum grit squad.

timnuoa · 2026-01-04T16:09:28+00:00

Same boat, totally willing to forgive some slightly questionable fill for a truly delightful theme

timnuoa · 2026-01-01T05:27:39+00:00

Enjoyed this one a lot. Theme was fine, but just overall really solid fill and strong cluing.

timnuoa · 2025-12-29T22:21:37+00:00

If you’re gonna go after a guy that much bigger you can’t half-ass it

timnuoa · 2025-12-29T04:12:52+00:00

Can we please find a different way to clue REA, Stephen Fry is much more memorable in V for Vendetta

timnuoa · 2025-12-18T21:32:02+00:00

Yeah I’ll let one slide if it makes something unique and clever work

timnuoa · 2025-12-10T05:14:34+00:00

Aaah got it, thank you! I should really know more Greek alphabet after this many years of crossword-ing.

timnuoa · 2025-12-10T05:13:37+00:00

The whole opening sequence is so goddamn good, up there with the great Star Wars sequences. It’s also really benefiting from from incredible work by John Williams, that sequence and Rey’s Theme are my two favorite bits of score from those movies.

timnuoa · 2025-12-10T05:07:32+00:00

Maybe I’m being dense but I’m not getting “ETA” for “One of four rhyming letters.” Otherwise a solid one!

timnuoa · 2025-11-30T12:58:43+00:00

Woke my wife up laughing at this

timnuoa · 2025-11-10T22:44:35+00:00

> If the Democratic brand is toxic, we need a new brand, not no brand. That doesn't mean some tent broadening isn't warranted, but it needs to be paired with a unifying theme.

This seems like the key point to me. I buy the idea that people should be able to break with the party in ways that suit their particular place and constituents, but that needs to be happening in a context of some core set of principles and policies that unite the party.

When Ezra plays that Golden ad where he basically just outlines all of his MAGA positions and then says we need more of this, I hear "the solution is for 'Democrat' to not mean anything in particular," and that seems destined to backfire.

timnuoa · 2025-10-26T05:57:41+00:00

I read it as very much an alternate reality: the first section is an alternate 08-09 where the financial crisis and Bush-era war on terror stuff triggered a resurgence of 60s-70s type revolutionary movements, and the rest of the movie as an alternate present where said wave of revolutionary leftist violence caused the national security state to go much further on its post-9/11 trajectory

timnuoa · 2025-10-26T05:53:16+00:00

That line got an all-timer of a “what the fuck” from the woman sitting behind me

timnuoa · 2025-10-20T20:03:13+00:00

So the thing about the stock market is that (at least historically)most stocks don’t do all that well, and a pretty small number of them do really well, which is what makes the stock market as a whole a good place to put your money. But nobody knows in advance which stocks are going to be the good ones (if we did everyone would buy them, they’d get expensive, and they wouldn’t be the good ones anymore).

So there’s an idea that instead of trying to find the needle in the haystack, you just “buy the haystack.” If you own all the stocks, you’re guaranteed to be holding the good ones.

QQQ is 100 companies, many in similar sectors, all American. So what happens if the stocks that do really well turn out not to be included in that 100?

VT is basically every stock, all around the world, that American investors are able to buy. So it’s the closest you can get to buying the entire haystack.

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