I don’t think I understand.

!Why is “time” considered the final word even though the actual word is “space-time”? Why is “with” abbreviated instead of translated?!<

It seems that the clue only makes sense retroactively rather than leading to the answer.

It’s unfortunate that the tutorial is a spoiler for this puzzle because it means I can’t even try to solve one today.

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I found yesterday’s by happenstance and now realize that the video is meant to explain the answer, not explain how to play.

::: When taken by itself “at the second” would mean “now”, and interpreting it as “ignore everything but the second letter of each word” seems like such a wild assumption. :::

Are these clues perhaps built on a culture of references that would be more familiar to a particular puzzle community?

Back in my day sugar was only C and H.

This reminds me of the ASMR video I watched where this person removed my cranial nerves for cleaning and I was so immersed that I was kind of weirded out and upset by their sudden theft.

Everything about biology is a random effect. Even a mutation that’s selected for wasn’t planned; it just happened by chance. Like if you’re an aquatic species maybe you’ll end up being a strong swimmer over generations, but the water doesn’t pressure you towards that on its own. You have to coincidentally develop flukes that make you a stronger swimmer before those traits can be selected for.

Sometimes traits that get passed down aren’t beneficial at all because they don’t make an impact on reproduction. Think of an animal that comes in many colors like a house cat or certain fish species. In such cases it’s clear that the color of the animal doesn’t have any bearing on its ability to reproduce, so a variety of colors are passed down for no particular reason.

I honestly found the overall temperature of the room pretty comforting, but maybe I was just cherry picking?

In some cases, like threads, there’s no searching within Discord either. And let’s say you find someone asking your same question, right? They don’t list the replies the way 4chan does, so you’re stuck manually scrolling and reading and hoping someone said something relevant. I like Discord just fine for certain applications, but why did everyone decide to use it for everything??

Also, I can’t PM people unless I’m friends with them or we share a common server. What is that? There’s literally no privacy option to let me chat with people without also accepting them into my friends, a group which obviously has more permissions than strangers. ???

Also, also, I can’t ever find a Discord server for something I’m interested in. I have to go to Reddit to find a thread containing a Discord link. ??? why

I’ve just read An Immense World by Ed Yong and learned that what seems to matter in birdsong is the way the notes change, like mid-note.

It’s how forums used to be, and it worked just fine. You had to go out of your way to find communities dedicated to bigotry instead of getting forcibly pipelined into them just for joining a funny cat image group.

There’s lots of bad pacing and horrible acting in movies today though. You can obviously watch or not watch whatever, but I think you’re limiting yourself unnecessarily if you put too much weight on the year of release.

None of that makes any sense. An old book and a new book aren’t different in the way a rotary phone and a smartphone are. They are functionally the same object: text on paper.

You could have, for example, a story about someone stranded on an island, and the era it was written in would make almost no difference at all because technology doesn’t have any bearing on the story, and we haven’t changed as a species. The culture of the author would influence things, but that’s true even of media today since we don’t all share the same culture.

Old media can also be very illuminating when it does affect the story because it can teach you something about the era in which it was made. You might think to yourself, “Gosh, people used to be able to feed and house their families on a single paycheck? Why can’t we do that today?”

And yeah, having stuff in black and white is less visually interesting, but I’m not going to rule out something I might find enjoyable just because of that. I watched quite a few old sitcoms in my childhood that I enjoyed just as much as the modern cartoons, and I still enjoy some of those cartoons today alongside modern TV.

Do you think the Home Alone sequels are better than the original?

Moby Dick is good in a way where I don’t care about any of the characters or the story, but I could read Melville describe water or argue that dolphins are fish for the rest of my life, just because of how beautifully he does it.

I don’t understand that at all. What about being old makes something boring by default?