Getting it in one frame is the best

I've given up almost all the daily word games I used to play, partly because they got gobbled up by larger entities that I am existentially opposed to, and partly because they just got a bit same old, same old. I haven't played Wordle in a year, and got frustrated by the sharp focus on US culture that made Connections impossible for anybody else.

But I have stuck with Framed, where you have to identify a movie by  a smallest number of frames, and still do it first thing every morning, and this is what my stats look like:

The number of times I have got it on the first try do look impressive, but I do think they used to be a lot easier, and I racked up most of those statistics in the first year or playing it. Since then, things have got harder, and it usually takes a couple of shots to crack it these days.

But I have seen - to use a technical term - a fucking shitload of films, thousands and thousands of the fuckers, and most of them have left some kind of cultural residue in my brain.

And I've still never failed, and have never needed all six guesses, which I am embarrassingly proud about. There is usually some slight cheating involved in all those five-guess results, they are films I've obviously never seen and will never get, but I can always recognize an actor or two, and use the magic of IMDB to find the answer.

It's a stupid thing to be doing every day, and it's even stupider to be proud about it. But these tiny daily rituals make the mundanity of existence just a little bit more bearable, and all the more so when you can show off about them a little.