John Walker's discussions

Oh yeah, there’s no comparison. I bounced of Backbone hard, because of the writing. This is something ridiculously well written. Read more

Excellent reply! Read more

Talk me through your logic here. Because I have observed that the way the game has been for the last two years is better than the changes of the last month, I should uninstall the game? Read more

I live in the UK. Where it was absolutely the case. But cheers for the accusation of lying! Read more

Funnily enough, Sedecordle is the step too far that breaks it and makes it easy again! If you use four starting words containing unique letters, then it’s pretty formulaic to go through and enter the 16 correct answers in turn. It’s not an unpleasant experience to do so, but it removes the Wordleness of it. Read more

Yes, the UK version is WEIRD. It’s all over the place, with confusing muddles of word lengths, etc. It’s pretty typical for a main channel UK quiz show - we’re very afraid of the calm, sensible nature of the Jeopardy-likes, and such programmes tend to be on the smaller terrestrial (as was) channels. Read more

As per, this has nothing to do with the NYT. Aside from a couple of tweaks to remove very obscure words, and the childish removal of “rude” words, the answers are what they would have been if it had been left to run on Wardle’s site forever. Read more

Again, yes, they’re successful games you already know about. My featuring them here wouldn’t have provided any service to you. In fact, I named a bunch of other examples of the type, explaining why I wasn’t focusing on already well-known games. Read more

It’s not overlooked at all! It’s just already very popular, and championed on this site, as you say! Read more

I’m sorry to hear about your dad. My condolences. Funnily enough, when my dad died I did exactly the same thing - went out and bought a ridiculously OP PC. Read more

““But then why not just use the far cheaper Switch?!” you cry, somewhat belligerently. Well, I reply, yeah, there’s a lot to that. Except that I’ve fifty squillion wonderful PC games on my Steam account that have never had a Switch release, and I like playing them. Never mind the significant point that this is a much,… Read more

I was definitely worried a game that conflates pillaging with dating could go horribly wrong, but it ended up being just the sweetest thing. Read more

Then you need to play yourself some Octordle. Read more

So Wordle’s code has the page load a new puzzle at midnight, but doesn’t reload the entire page. So as long as you never F5 the tab, it’ll always just load in a new puzzle based on the version you began playing. Refresh, and you’ll find yourself with the new version on the NYT domain. Read more

I’m a little concerned about the accreditation behind your name there. It’s a homophone of “global”, dear. Read more

Hello! Read more

I have just learned, despite living in the country, that this is a current gameshow in the UK! Read more

My motivations here were that fake Pokemon cards selling like this interests me, and the schadenfreude of this ghastly idiot losing so much money he shouldn’t have in the first place. Read more

I feel like I worked pretty hard putting this together, taking the exact opposite position of Schreier, and writing as much of it based on my own knowledge as I was able, while amply crediting Jason’s original journalism. But sure. Read more

Go to Ed’s bedroom as Benard, and “use” the computer! Read more