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joe40001
02/28/22 10:31:07 PM
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The secret to Wordle isn't that it's great, it's that it's a socially acceptable way to say "hello friends, I'm alive today, are you also alive today?".

This 1 minute puzzle serves as a pretense to acknowledge your own existence and the existence of friends without the seeming neediness and emptiness of something like posting "hi all" every day.

One does not wordle to wordle, but instead one wordles to be seen and to be heard... if just for a single moment every day. Wordle is not a puzzle game but a social/performative exercise in mutual acknowledgement whose main purpose is staving off the empty vacuum of isolation, a vacuum that if left unchecked, will provide comfortable residence to a growing psychological demon of nihilistic existential dread.

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LanHikari10
02/28/22 10:32:14 PM
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I play it for the brief brain stimulation.

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IndorilGawain
02/28/22 10:32:16 PM
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Shut up joenumbers

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Xette33
02/28/22 10:32:57 PM
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I play it for fun and barely share my results. Get rekt.

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BilalPowell
02/28/22 10:33:04 PM
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I play for the Lingo nostalgia

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Gobstoppers12
02/28/22 10:33:48 PM
#6:


joe40001 posted...
nihilistic existential dread
Nope, I don't have that, sorry dude.

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gigageek1500
02/28/22 10:35:25 PM
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I think it's because it's pretty well balanced to seem like you could lose a lot of the time, and if it doesn't even feel close then it's a round where you feel like you got a crazy lucky guess early on.

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joe40001
02/28/22 10:36:29 PM
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BilalPowell posted...
I play for the Lingo nostalgia

We got a regular Chuck Woolery over here!

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Cookie Bag
02/28/22 10:37:15 PM
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How to delude yourself you're not actually dumb as a brick by saying random shit, or in this case another stinker shit topic by joenumbers

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GeraldDarko
02/28/22 10:40:35 PM
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That's a lengthy explanation I didn't bother to read. My god, bro. I'm willing to bet it's pretentious af.
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joe40001
02/28/22 10:41:00 PM
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Cookie Bag posted...
How to delude yourself you're not actually dumb as a brick by saying random shit, or in this case another stinker shit topic by joenumbers

Are you calling me dumb?

I didn't make my post as a "look at me, I'm smart" post, I made it as a fun way to highlight but also dramatize the underlying reason why people play Wordle.

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Turbam
02/28/22 10:41:20 PM
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Oh, you're back I guess


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joe40001
02/28/22 11:51:30 PM
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Turbam posted...
Oh, you're back I guess

I occasionally post here.

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AltyMcAltface
03/01/22 12:17:17 AM
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r/iamverysmart

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IndorilGawain
03/01/22 12:20:32 AM
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joe40001 posted...
I occasionally post here.
In between suspensions

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Rharyx211
03/01/22 12:21:11 AM
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I still have no idea what Wordle is, and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.

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Tyranthraxus
03/01/22 12:21:42 AM
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To be fair you need to have a high IQ to tell your friends hello

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Kim_Seong-a
03/01/22 12:23:32 AM
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Or they just play it because it's the latest trendy game.

Like the Helicopter Game, Flappy Bird, 2048, Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, etc etc

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Strider102
03/01/22 12:24:28 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
To be fair you need to have a high IQ to tell your friends hello

Remember, he's a genius with 180+ IQ.

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au_gold
03/01/22 1:09:18 AM
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This made me physically cringe.

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CelestialVoices
03/01/22 1:11:30 AM
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joe40001 posted...
hello friends, I'm alive today

i like to keep 'em wondering

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Ar0ge
03/01/22 1:13:33 AM
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Ok Mr. Urophobe
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BlingBling22947
03/01/22 3:50:30 PM
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I've never thought of it like that.

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MedeaLysistrata
03/01/22 10:12:05 PM
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This is actually a funny/good post


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joe40001
03/02/22 2:48:20 AM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
This is actually a funny/good post

Thanks

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Rathinor
03/02/22 3:10:11 AM
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GeraldDarko posted...
I'm willing to bet it's pretentious af.
That's joe "horse dewormer is the cure to COVID" numbers to a T

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WorsCaseOntario
03/02/22 3:39:36 AM
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So much hostility to such an innocuous post.

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indica
03/02/22 3:46:37 AM
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I do it for the rupees

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MedeaLysistrata
03/02/22 9:27:04 AM
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I've been meaning to ask why you don't pursue formal logic

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AloneIBreak
03/02/22 9:54:01 AM
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joe40001 posted...
One does not wordle to wordle, but instead one wordles to be seen and to be heard...

Ive always suspected that people are mostly playing for attention. Thanks for confirming.

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joe40001
03/02/22 12:00:39 PM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
I've been meaning to ask why you don't pursue formal logic

I love logic. It was my favorite class in college. But I'm curious what you mean by "pursue it" now. As a hobby? As a career? And if so what would you mean more specifically?

I have a website idea I've been working on for years that involves Bayesian statistics, but that's not logic.

So please elaborate, I'm interested to hear more of your thoughts on this.

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joe40001
03/02/22 12:01:48 PM
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AloneIBreak posted...
Ive always suspected that people are mostly playing for attention. Thanks for confirming.


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MedeaLysistrata
03/02/22 12:45:38 PM
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joe40001 posted...
I love logic. It was my favorite class in college. But I'm curious what you mean by "pursue it" now. As a hobby? As a career? And if so what would you mean more specifically?

I have a website idea I've been working on for years that involves Bayesian statistics, but that's not logic.

So please elaborate, I'm interested to hear more of your thoughts on this.
Oh, you already know logic then, I wasn't sure if you did (do you work with computers?). I tried to get into it but wasn't very good. I guess by pursue I just mean trying to solve unsolved problems or something, idk.

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BilalPowell
03/02/22 12:46:47 PM
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indica posted...
I do it for the rupees
Another wordle player I work with didnt know the word rupee. Was kinda surprised thought it was as famous as euros.

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Questionmarktarius
03/02/22 12:56:29 PM
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..wait, everyone else knows you've played wordle?
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joe40001
03/02/22 12:57:44 PM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
Oh, you already know logic then, I wasn't sure if you did (do you work with computers?). I tried to get into it but wasn't very good. I guess by pursue I just mean trying to solve unsolved problems or something, idk.

Yeah, I'm a programmer, so that's about as close as there is to a logic job.

The good thing about logic is that it's never wrong.

The bad thing about logic is that it's entirely based on premises being true, and there's almost no premises (aside from the fundamental premises of logic) that people accept are true.

If you ever want to talk about logic, I'd love to talk more. I had a study group in my college, but nobody showed up but this one person and I basically ended up tutoring them the whole time. lol.

I don't know if there are any unsolved logic problems, I do occasionally try to solve a couple famous unsolved math problems such as Singmaster's Conjecture and the Collatz Conjecture.

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COVxy
03/02/22 12:59:22 PM
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joe40001 posted...
I had a study group in my college, but nobody showed up

Joenumbers origin story.

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joe40001
03/02/22 12:59:31 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
..wait, everyone else knows you've played wordle?

It has a very easy to use "share" button that copies a non-spoiler version of what you did to the clipboard so you can share it with others.

So on my discord for example every day I will post something like:

Wordle 256 5/6







And my friends will post their results too.

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DeathVelvien
03/02/22 1:00:05 PM
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I play it when I get up to get my brain started for the rest of the day

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joe40001
03/02/22 1:01:29 PM
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COVxy posted...
Joenumbers origin story.

I am very lonely, but yeah people always act like being social is trivial/easy but most times I've tried it's met with results like this.

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MutantJohn
03/02/22 1:08:36 PM
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joe40001 posted...
Yeah, I'm a programmer, so that's about as close as there is to a logic job.

The good thing about logic is that it's never wrong.



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MedeaLysistrata
03/03/22 4:52:44 AM
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I've squandered my opportunity, but do you think there will be 100 presidents?

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joe40001
03/03/22 12:56:20 PM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
I've squandered my opportunity, but do you think there will be 100 presidents?

Is this a reference to something? I'm afraid I don't understand the context of the question.

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gigageek1500
03/03/22 1:03:22 PM
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Wordle isn't just for saying hi to friends but to our mortality. What, we shyly ask ourselves, have we learned in the first two sixths of our lives? Can we turn the insights gleaned into something meaningful by the time the end comes? Daily we hope so. Many will make it. Some will not.

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