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LA Times, Sun, Jan 26, 2025 - "Quality Time"
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898590-swug
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NY Times, Sun, Jan 26, 2025 - "Letter Openers"
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898597-vosk
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LA Times, Sat, Jan 25, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898606-glaff
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NY Times, Sat, Jan 25, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898604-glemp
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rDrama themed crossword
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6793417-jisk
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NY Times, Sun, Jan 3, 2010 - "Antique Finish"
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898609-plusk
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NY Times, Sun, July 4, 2024 CRYPTIC
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898623-vosk
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THANKS FOR PLAYING EVERYONE
As you can see, this week we will do the usual Sat & Sun crosswords, then our special drama-themed crossword made by @ShriekingGeek , then we will do a Sunday NY Times crossword from 2010 which was uploaded this week, and then we will finally end on a cryptic crossword printed last year in The NY Times and uploaded this week, which was fortunate for us since we are going to start adding some cryptic crosswords to line up.
If you are not familiar with cryptic crosswords, I highly recommend you familiarize yourself with how they work if you want to help us solve them. Otherwise, the clues will look like gibberish. Here is a guide from The New Yorker:
- TotalVatniggerDeath : you need to start sneaking in references to marsey and bard
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Dear God. James Shupe has hanged himself a month after receiving vaginoplasty pic.twitter.com/VKJh1bxruY
— Graham Linehan ๐๏ธ (@Glinner) February 11, 2025
here is an interview with him (which i didnt watch)...
suicide note (didnt read) but apparently he was mad at Elon...
https://zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-hanging-draped-in-trans
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in its time as one of the deadest( but best) esports of all time, competitive tf2 has had numerous dramas, some funnier than others. most of these are libertarian drama. one notable one occurred back in 2016
b4nny
Grant "B4nny" Vincent is the most successful competitive tf2 player of all time, having at least 30 tournament wins, 4 international tournament wins and numerous other meaningless trophies for his collection since 2008, racking up over 28,000 hours in the game. (no seriously) He is notable for being perhaps the only tf2 player to have made a career from streaming and for his enormous ego, creating numerous moments of hilarity.
(there will be more.)
one of b4nny's most redeeming traits (at least in the past) remains his penchant for tweeting.
his tweet game was so prolific that there is a 15 page thread on the main competitive tf2 forum compiling people's favorites
https://www.teamfortress.tv/32408/favorite-b4nny-tweet
some of these have caused immense seethe.
some of my favourites include:
(ok, this one is pretty funny, hes making fun of someone for not going to lan because of school or something lol)
despite his mastermind X antics b4nny has had a rough relationship with the community through the years.
initially starting off well liked, something seemed to snap in b4nny's heart, turning it cold.
maybe this was when he got cucked by his teammate and continued to play with him after finding out because he loves winning that much. Maybe it was his own teammate leaving mid-playoffs match due to him insisting on swapping the team's roles around for some reason, causing his team to get upset, get 3rd place (up to this point b4nny hadnt been either 1st or second in the top division for 4 years!) and disband immediately after. This also happened again like 7 years later but thats a different story.
B4nny immediately rebuilt his team with new up and coming players (including some who would go on to play in theoverwatch league (lolll)
all was well in b4nny's camp. He had recently met his funding goal to attend the 2016 international lan hosted in some shithole in england idk lol
one fateful day, b4nny decided to beat his liver and stream drunk. Clearly intoxicated, b4nny streamed on. meanwhile an up and coming top european player by the name of thalash decided to do some trolling by insinuating that b4nny was getting carried by his now ex-teammate who had cucked him
in the past. B4nny's ego, already more inflated than the hindenburg (RIp crodies) reached nuclear meltdown levels. how dare a player who has never gone to LAN talk down on me like this!
b4nny also has a bizarre half-joking hatred for european players, berating their playstyle constantly for being slow and boring (true)
these factors lead to b4nny going on a legendary drunken tangent raving about europeans, accolades and how thalash is the equivalent of what someone might call a plumber or taxi driver driver in the UFC.
the most notable part of this autism fueled rant is b4nny's legendary statement that he requests his new found foe utter when he loses to him on lan(0:33 seconds in video 1 :) )
im sorry im not good i apologize for my ego please forgive me, im just europeean.
uh oh!
this sparks huge drama in the community, with some pointing out that thalash was provoking an obviously deathly drunk b4nny while others laughed at his ego about an already small esport.
august 26, 2016
b4nny has arrived in europe with his team to smite the europeeans once and for all.
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at his sexiest, he is ready to take the win and prove why blumpfkenstiltskin needs to stop giving aid to twink european panhandlers.
can you guess what happens?
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b4nny loses, becoming a laughing stock and likely killing some hobo in retaliation (he lived in la).
b4nny later returns to his uncrushable winning ways, winning every single major tournament in NA until 2021 and eventually getting his getback on thalash in 2018 and 2019 at lan, one being in NA one being in ingerland.
b4nny still plays to this day. i think despite his insufferable ego, its quite impressive hes been able to dedicate himself to this without roping or moving on to another esport. hes clearly a talented team leader and team builder.
ill probably never post again on this site but theres so much funny drama from this esport holy shit lol
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In Europe and Switzerland, we don't need social or economic refugees from the USA any other country in the world. Stay in your own country.
He's not going to hurt you, you know? The US is a strong democracy.
Maybe you are trolling, but no, you simply can't just move to Switzerland because you feel like it. You need specialist skills and a company willing to sponsor you, just like it would be if I was to move to the US.
If you husband has mid 8 figures CHF to invest in Switzerland, that might be difficult.
How exactly do you propose moving here? Have you seen the visa requirements?
Also, how exceedingly arrogant to just claim you can live here when your country makes it so difficult for everyone else.
Is this a troll post?
- FreedomforChristmas : This was fun, thanks for hosting!
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!crossword I also have a question for you. I think there might be a couple of more mega crosswords left, but is there something else you would like to do after we run out? Or just keep to the Sat & Sun Crosswords?
Current Crossword:
LA Times, Sun, Jan 19, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849602-jund
SOLVED
NY Times, Sun, Jan 19, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849664-jisk
SOLVED
LA Times, Sat, Jan 18, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849722-noct
SOLVED
NY Times, Sat, Jan 18, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849742-jank
SOLVED
SUPER MEGA, NY Times, Sun, Dec 13, 2020
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849420-treb
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Trump: The US will take over the Gaza Stripโฆ weโll own it pic.twitter.com/W0mEQzIUut
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 5, 2025
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this site is so stupid, they talk like literal apes. i tried to find infighting for mbux but it's so fricking hard cause they talk exactly how they claim "bipoc" talk.
The thread starts out posing
this question:
Next reply gives his very detailed analysis
that repeats the same exact points but with different
words:
We ALMOST had cuckposting but thankfully in this guy's story tyrone actually
gets ignored
heh, bipoc
are actually
better
than me because their parents aren't from the same mother
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Now we get (somewhat) cuckposting in reply to 2 and 3
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!friendsofredactor0 !redscarepod
These r-slurs truly think CHYNA is some free society built on socialist values. Are these neighborz even realz?
"Give me 300k per year to say China bad"
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Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original Foundation trilogy, due to years of pressure by fans and editors on Asimov to write another,[2] and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher.
This doesn't sound particularly promising.
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David Hogg is being a pig, according to Democratic National Committee insiders who are already slinging mud at the new party vice chairman.
Barely two weeks into his tenure, Hogg has been leveraging DNC contact lists to blast out messages soliciting donations to his own political action committee โ from which he draws more than $100,000 in compensation a year, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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Hogg co-founded "Leaders We Deserve" in August 2023 with the stated goal of electing young progressives to Congress and state legislatures across the country. It also provided him a six-figure income job right out of college.
Since the PAC was founded, Hogg has pocketed more than $175,000, records show, with more than $20,000 in salary payments coming in December alone, the most recent month for which public data is available.
BREAKING: Newly elected DNC Vice Chair David Hogg is using party resources to funnel donations into his own PACโwhere he pays himself a six-figure salary. pic.twitter.com/2p1RY7PfGq
โ Clown World โข ๐คก (@ClownWorld_) February 15, 2025
Documents show that not only did the โLeaders we Deserveโ PAC pay David Hogg $16,351.39 in May, he is also on the permanent payroll.
โ Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) August 9, 2024
THIS MEANS HIS PAYMENT WAS NOT a donation. He represents the PAC with every single statement, post and speech he gives.
CALL OUT HIS LIE. pic.twitter.com/fRNDdMzkL8
DemocRATs learn the grift early
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