{"id":1255,"date":"2024-10-20T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2024-10-20T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:48:11","slug":"this-is-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/20\/this-is-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like several hundred million other folks, I play the Wordle daily. I like logic puzzles, and these generally don&#8217;t disappoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one type of puzzle, however, that just pisses me right the hell off: the one where the answer is one word out of many that fit the basic pattern and only change one letter. This puzzle from a week or so ago is one of the most egregious instances I have ever encountered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08-456x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1256\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08-456x1024.png 456w, https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08-134x300.png 134w, https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08-768x1724.png 768w, https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08-684x1536.png 684w, https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08-912x2048.png 912w, https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-15-13.28.08.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I managed to get almost the maximum possible number of incorrect guesses on this puzzle and still didn&#8217;t manage to guess the word. And &#8216;guess&#8217; is the operative word here, because there&#8217;s no effing logic in figuring this out. According to the quick research I did, there are over a dozen words that could have fit this format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But Wolfie&#8221; I hear you say, &#8220;the answer is always a word that&#8217;s in common usage. It shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to guess.&#8221; To which I say: that&#8217;s bullshit, because &#8220;common usage&#8221; is entirely subjective to who you commonly speak to. And lemmetellya, I apparently don&#8217;t talk to bakers or tree-scientists, because I haven&#8217;t heard the word &#8216;corer&#8217; in forever. &#8216;Coder&#8217; is by far more common in today&#8217;s vocabulary, and just about everyone is a coper cowering under cover in this climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the creator of this puzzle, imagine a big hairy middle finger to go along with my &#8220;fuck you&#8221;. Your puzzle was bad, and you should feel bad about it. don&#8217;t pull this crap again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like several hundred million other folks, I play the Wordle daily. I like logic puzzles, and these generally don&#8217;t disappoint. There is one type of puzzle, however, that just pisses <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/20\/this-is-the-worst\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscelleny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}