Daniel Victor

Anyone else consistently misreading this score bug and thinking the count is 0-2 here?

I think we have to accept that "gaslight" is one of those words that was used incorrectly so much it now just means a different thing. Joins an esteemed club headlined by literally, begs the question, could care less and aggravate

Philadelphia Eagles Fans Kissed, Got to Know Each Other, Married Shamus Clancy and Ashley Suder were strangers when they met at a Super Bowl championship parade to recreate a famous photo. They were brought together by a viral tweet and a bold suggestion.

For NYT Vows: When the Eagles won their first Super Bowl in 2018, he tweeted the famous WW2 kissing photo as a joke. She didn’t follow or know him, but suggested they should recreate it at the parade. They kissed within a minute of meeting, and got married just after Philly's second Super Bowl win

Note to every hotel in the world: Please have a full-length mirror. Everyone wants a full-length mirror and they're not that expensive or anything

Season 2 review: Needed more Ricken

One of my bigger pet peeves is when people say "Fall down seven times, stand up eight." You can't!! Look:

Fall 1, Stand 1
Fall 2, Stand 2
Fall 3, Stand 3
...
Fall 7, Stand 7

Now what? You're already standing, you can't stand again. It's nonsense.

If you ask New York Times reporters to spend less time on Twitter, will they? (Spoiler: yes) An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.

Speaking only for myself, my disappearance from Twitter — a place I once loved and owe most of my career to — came because both posting and consuming started to feel deeply poisonous, with little of the upside that used to exist. It's gotten so much worse, but I still don't miss 2022 Twitter

There is a generation of children growing up to believe the Eagles just go to the Super Bowl all the time

Now I'll never find out about the glitch in Super Mario 3

Just got this. Bye!

The second season of Squid Game is like if you took everything that worked about the first season and made it 40% worse

Looks like it was deleted, what was it? (Also hi!)

I don't want the game to end with a defensive replacement CF getting mowed down! If Rick Vaughn wanted Parkman, we should too

Unpopular opinion I will stand behind with no shame: The golden at-bat is a tremendous idea

Hi Hugo,

I'm sorry, I cannot write another article to help Bristol City. Best,

Right, and I find having no choice but to directly confront my shame is the only way out of my shame spiral

Note: This absolutely does not apply to PR pitches, please do not circle back

I think we should normalize nagging. If I owe you a response, it’s probably because I forgot about it and it’s not gonna happen. I always appreciate reminders! It’s nothing personal. I don't want to fail you, and your nudge makes it more likely you get what you need. Everyone wins.

I stubbornly believe he is drawing dead but it certainly is something to point to beyond the growth angle, I guess?

I guess the reverse of that suggests another use case I'd be comfortable with: If I'm at the bottom/middle of an alliance and would be stealthily OK with the people most at risk in my alliance going home

Also, hello to everyone who found me on a list of NYT journalists. I'll mostly be using this account for throwaway nonsense. Sorry!

Am I missing something? I would trust your take, @stephenfishbach.bsky.social

I do wonder if there's some bias in how we think about it — we remember the splits that go wrong more than the votes that go smoothly — but players love to (over?)correct for things they see on recent seasons, and the high-profile examples of splits gone awry are stacking up.

To argue against myself, the act of being comfortable with a split is a signal of trust to your alliance, and evidence that you will do what you say you will even when risky. But woof, that's a lot of risk to stomach, and all the New Era twists have encouraged everyone to seek the safest move.

There are so few remaining situations where I'd be comfortable splitting. To even consider it I'd need an indisputably clear target — equally threatening to everyone — and rock-solid intel that they have a real idol. Ideally requiring two flippers for it to unravel instead of one. Hard to pull off!

On an even split, you don't have the hierarchy problem but you do have more people who can ruin everything with a single defection. You need iron trust in everyone, not just most of them.

If I were in a power alliance of four with a clear fifth, I don't want the fifth (or anyone I think might flip) to be on the strong side of a split. Which means players will start perceiving it as establishing a hierarchy, suddenly wary if they're told to be on the weak side of the split.

I think future #Survivor players may almost entirely ditch vote-splits. In most situations I'd probably prefer a guess at who an idol *might* be played for, with some psychological engineering to tip the odds a bit, over the very high likelihood that a single person in my alliance could flip.

No, the Tryptophan in Turkey Won’t Make You Sleepy (Published 2015) A common myth suggests that the tryptophan in turkey will make you drowsy, but that’s not why you might be ready for bed after Thanksgiving dinner.

Annual reminder: Despite everything you've ever heard, the tryptophan in turkey does not make you sleepy. There's more of it in other foods - you're just sleepy after Thanksgiving because you ate and drank a lot

This skeet is gonna Go Viral