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Frist july? Are everyone leftpondians?
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Locationalization must become a real word. 😍
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You can close the pop-up by clicking the roman numeral X in the upper right corner.
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Guessing that the puzzle also has the requirement of "start and end on a number" so they need to add a little extra snakey-bit after the 5 in order to not have the appendage after 12...
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You start on 1, end on 12, and must fill in every cell in the grid. After 5 you were supposed to zig-zag back and forth to fill the grid. What is err about that?
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Is that - or could that be - this particularly annoying thing where you use nation flags to indicate content language? Or maybe the other annoying thing where your IP address is used to determine content language?
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As to linkedin's game, the problem is obvious.
The player got to #12 with two squares left over. And sloppy game design let them continue the path past #12 to cover those last two squares. The error message amounts to "you didn't complete the puzzle correctly." But that's not what the words say.
The message would be valid, correct, appropriate, etc., if the gameplay was force-ended when you hit the #12. Sounds like the all-too common case of one part of the app making assumptions another part wasn't upholding.
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I think the biggest WTF in that error message is the "Oops!". Has that just become standard to put in all error messages now?
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As a long time reader of tdwtf, I should have thought to photograph the error message from the Hulu app when I was configuring a new apple TV device over the weekend.
I don't remember the exact text, but I'd much rather see "Oops!" in a customer-facing error message than "JSON".
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Isn't TRWTF that there are GAMES ON LINKEDIN?
Addendum 2025-07-07 09:52: I would much rather they spend resources on validating job listings and nuking people who try to use LI as a dating site.
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Obviously, for #2, it is fortunate that they are checkboxes, enabling you to select both. "Yes, they are checkboxes and no, they shouldn't be checkboxes."
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#2 also allows you to select both, indicating: "yes I saw the HIPAA notice", and "no I didn't read them"; or: "no I didn't read them" but "yes 'I agree' now just let me through"