How old's your Android? Performance was fine on my Pixel 3a.

Good point - I should have specified. Looking it up now, the CPU my phone uses is the Helio P22 - a budget chip released in 2018. So performance might be fine on more reasonable phones. :)

I do want it to work for everyone though! It might be the emojis falling in the background. I also realized there's no way to turn that off. For a while, I had them piling up at the bottom of the screen which was very cool, but the physics engine would make my recent iPhone overheat. So, I'll make a note to add a setting to turn that off and that might take care of it.

I liked it, but a couple of bits of feedback:

1. I thought there were a few too many clues of various types. The emoji, combined with the word list in alphabetical order, the part-filled words, AND the infinite guesses. I'll admit, I ended up guessing quite a few times, which slightly soured the experience.

2. Some of the words are really weird. I'm not sure all of the onomatopoeic words should be in there. And I don't think the acronyms (e.g NNW) should be in there.

Other than that, though, I thought it was a great version of the NYT equivalent. Loved that there were so many words — it's a shame that #2 would mean fewer, but I still think it would be worth being a bit pickier on balance. My partner didn't quite get the emjoi clues until I explained an example, but I thought a lot of them were quite clever!

1. This is interesting. It's definitely made with language learners in mind, so there's a copious amount of hints. There's also a ranking system, where you do get penalized if you guess so much. That's not so forward, it used to be up front and friends didn't like it so much. One way of making it harder is taking out the 2 and 3 letter words, which really reduces the number of hints you get via word fill ins. I was thinking of something like Three Emojis++ as a name for that mode, but I haven't gotten around to testing it out so much.

2. I've removed NNW now. I've got a todo list to start playing a day ahead and doing a final pass over such things so that not as much weird stuff gets through. I do like having onomatopoeic words, because in German, it is really interesting to me to see them. I would like to known the German equivalents to Eh, ow, oh, ew and so I leave such things in. But have five different versions of ewwww, yes, that'll get fixed.

I have scripts that tune it to specific numbers of words each day by selecting different letter sets based on my curated word list, so removing words doesn't have such a big impact. And the emojis are hit or miss, but when they hit they are very funny and helpful. I would never ask a human to label 75 words a day with emojis, but GPT-5 will happily do it for a $1 a day.

Thank you for playing!!! And writing this comment!!

That was probably the final straw for me. Well, one of the final straws. Imagine trying to politicise this.

That might work if it was an instantaneous global move. Unfortunately, we're far more likely to be boiled like frogs.

We should fight this injustice rather than submit to it.

Ironically, as a UK citizen who may have once smoked a doobie, I could be prevented from entering the US, even though it is 'more legal' there than here. It hasn't stopped me before, of course; what's stopping me now is the current administration and a fear I may be abused by the US authorities for any manner of reasons (including none).

I find it interesting how the shrinking of the world via the internet may result in more international isolation because of conflicting online laws.

> even though it is 'more legal' there than here.

Using cannabis is 100% illegal in every part of the US. The idea that it’s legal in some states is a common misconception, but not true.

Because that's what public space is? We've always held that principle, and I don't think 'reach' should affect that. If someone takes this to the extreme (i.e. follows you around in public, taking thousands of pictures and uploading them in real time) they can be charged with stalking, harassment, or a similar offence.

To turn it on its head, if you cannot take photographs of people in public without their permission, then we basically lose the ability to take any photos of public space.

Or just use the <title> of the page verbatim? If it's clickbaity, it'll get downvoted, as it should.

Thanks. It would be slightly less of a kick-in-the-balls if the page told you there was a video that was blocked, rather than just leaving a big empty space.

If it's any consolation, from the perspective of a visual browser user who scrolls to the bottom, this article just... keeps on going forever. And it really fucks with your browser history if you do so!

(Oh, and it also just ends abruptly after "Here's what the machines do:")