Phew, that was close. I finally found myself on the right track about halfway down today’s board, only to then get utterly stuck, every guess as incorrect as the last. Thankfully I took the time to carefully mull over the few letters I had remaining, and scraped by with today’s Wordle answer on the final line.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Tuesday, August 8

Someone who chooses to deliberately upset or harm another person could be described as today’s answer. This deeply negative behaviour can occur at any age and in any social environment. 

Is there a double letter in today’s Wordle? 

Yes, a letter is used twice in today’s puzzle. 

Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day 

Looking to extend your Wordle winning streak? Perhaps you’ve just started playing the popular daily puzzle game and are looking for some pointers. Whatever the reason you’re here, these quick tips can help push you in the right direction: 

• Start with a word that has a mix of common vowels and consonants. 
• The answer might repeat the same letter.
• Try not to use guesses that include letters you’ve already eliminated. 

There’s no racing against the clock with Wordle so you don’t need to rush for the answer. Treating the game like a casual newspaper crossword can be a good tactic; that way, you can come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Stepping away for a while might mean the difference between a win and a line of grey squares. 

Today’s Wordle answer

What is the #780 Wordle answer?

Here’s that win you’ve been looking for. The answer to the August 8 (780) Wordle is BULLY.

Previous Wordle answers

The last 10 Wordle answers 

Wordle solutions that have already been used can help eliminate answers for today’s Wordle or give you inspiration for guesses to help uncover more of those greens. They can also give you some inspired ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle answers:

• August 7: BROOK
• August 6: POLYP
• August 5: ANODE
• August 4: CHART
• August 3: PARTY
• August 2: BEGET
• August 1: TENTH
• July 31: STYLE
• July 30: BATHE
• July 29: CURLY

Learn more about Wordle

Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and it’s up to you to work out which five-letter word is hiding among them to win the popular daily puzzle.

It’s usually a good plan to start with a strong word like ALERT—or any other word with a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels—and you should be off to a flying start, with a little luck anyway. You should also avoid starting words with repeating letters, so you don’t waste the chance to confirm or eliminate an extra letter. Once you hit Enter, you’ll see which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.

Your second guess should compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed on the first row—just don’t forget to leave out any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: BOOKS).

If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used, you can scroll to the relevant section above.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes. 

It’s a wild variety of bonuses and combos all stacked on top of each other to let you make crazy builds that break the game—and the developers are hoping that its staged “complexity at your own pace” will ease you into it and only add that complexity as you want it.

Tales & Tactics is developed by Table 9 Studio, makers of one of our favorite Slay the Spire mods—Downfall, the one that casts you as a villain. It was good enough to get one of those fancy standalone, non-workshop Steam pages reserved for the best mods.

The basics of Tales & Tactics have you drafting characters from a unit pool of archetypes and jobs—skeletons, demons, orcs, faeries, marksmen, scrappers, tanks, mages. Merging three of a kind lets you upgrade them to a new level, and equipping them with permanent gear lets you tweak how they behave in combat. While doing all that you’re able to then double-down on combos by grabbing character buffs, ala Slay the Spire’s items, that affect every unit you take. None of that’s to mention that you apparently can upgrade your character to have more powers.

There’s a demo you can play right now, actually. PC Gamer’s Harvey Randall gave it a shot back when they’d first posted it and found it was quite complex, but was still promising. (Or extra promising if you like complexity.)

“I genuinely think Tales & Tactics is worth your time if you’re into auto-battlers or roguelikes, and especially if you’re into both. It mashes two different genres together in a novel way, and it’s filled with charming artwork and little beasties to enjoy,” he said, “My issues with the game’s dizzying amount of systems could be a draw for the min-maxing geniuses of the gaming world.”

You can find Tales & Tactics on Steam, where it’ll launch on August 10th, 2023. It’s developed by Table 9 Studio and published by Yogscast Games.

As a dev blog explains, all currencies that were previously character-bound—Ordo Dockets, Ordo Ingots, plasteel, and diamantine—will be merged into a single wallet accessible by any of your Rejects. This is a particularly welcome change, meaning that when your veteran hits max level and you start over as an ogryn, you won’t be broke.

Meanwhile, the mission board will be getting Maelstrom Missions that combine new modifiers with existing ones. Fatshark gives the example of a mission with “waves of Specialists, hunting grounds, waves of mutants and players have 20% reduced ability cooldown.” Maelstrom Missions will hand out more XP and Ordo Dockets in return for their increased difficulty.

A separate mission board for high-difficulty missions called “Auric-level Operations” bringing extra-hard challenges that always have conditions applied and are limited to level-30 characters is also coming. Changes to the way missions are generated will apparently bring “a more varied amount of conditions” all round. Maelstrom Missions will be available on the Auric-level Operations board as well.

Other changes to missions include a quickplay bonus like the Vermintide games have, handing out extra XP, Ordo Dockets, diamantine, and plasteel in return for jumping into quickplay to round out an existing squad, who might be halfway through a map. You’ll also be able to manually select which server you connect to, rather than automatically being assigned the one with the lowest latency.

Finally, changes to crafting will let you select exactly which perk you want to apply when refining an item, and two aspects of each weapon (whether perks or blessings) will be modifiable. The same goes for curios. The other two aspects of your weapons will be locked, however. Fatshark explained this decision by saying, “We are aware that the changes mentioned above do not give unrestricted freedom to all aspects of an item. To do so would have a big impact on item acquisition in Darktide, and we want to explore different paths further down the line.”

While some of these are nice improvements, as Darktide’s player numbers drop—presumably the reason behind encouragements like quickplay bonuses—it does seem like the real problem has gone unaddressed. Darktide’s combat remains excellent, it captures the setting’s atmosphere well, and the storytelling in its opening is enthralling. It’s just that after that perfect opening, all that’s left is repeating maps to level up in return for a series of cutscenes that feel like they’re from a completely different game. 

Hopefully Fatshark is working on a significant chunk of new content behind the scenes, because additional story missions and classes is what makes the Vermintide games worth returning to—not tweaks to the crafting mechanics.

“All of the above changes are being prepared for our next patch to Darktide,” Fatshark says, “which will release around mid-August. As part of this patch there will be a maintenance period in which you will be unable to log in into the game, we expect it to last 3 hours.”

The page (which has obviously been taken down) was spotted by @All_The_Watts (via VideoCardz) and listed a near-complete set of specifications. This surely means the card is coming sooner than we thought. It was only a couple of days ago that AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su said AMD was on track to launch “enthusiast-class” graphics cards before the end of October.

Apart from the TDP of the card and it’s price, this is it, folks. But with this, we can now speculate about how this long-gestating card will perform. With a shader count of 3840, the 7800 XT has about 28% fewer shaders than the RX 7900 XT’s 5376. Both have 16GB of memory, but the 7900 XT’s is faster, plus it has a wider memory bus.

The RX 7800 XT is clocked a little higher, but if we were to assume the 7800 XT is about 28% slower than the RX 7900 XT, it wouldn’t be too far ahead of the RX 6800 XT, and that certainly wouldn’t be ideal for AMD. I’ll wait and see how it performs before getting too far ahead of myself.

Other key specs include the expected display connector complement of one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 2.1. PowerColor mentions that only two DP 2.1 connections are supported at the same time.

How the card ultimately performs in the market will come down to its price and performance versus the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070. The RTX 4070 Ti is likely out of reach, given it’s a bit too close to the RX 7900 XT in performance.

PowerColor’s listing didn’t reveal a TDP, but considering the card comes equipped with two 8-pin power connectors, it’s shaping up to be a bit of a thirsty one compared to Nvidia’s offerings. It’s also a big triple slot, triple fan card, so it’s not going to be as efficient as something like the RTX 4060 Ti, which sips a relatively thrifty 160W.

Of course, the Red Devil is a premium model but I’d be surprised if entry-level RX 7800 XTs comes in at under 250W. 

It’s clear we won’t have long to wait for AMD’s mid-range challenger. But one thing is for sure: someone at PowerColor got a terse call from the big boss. Or worse.

Not only will this be Lenovo Legion’s first foray into the world of OLED gaming laptops, but the 14-inch form factor also, and that’s something we’re really excited for: More current-gen gaming laptops that are actually highly portable.

Right now in the laptop space, there aren’t too many 14-inchers to speak of. There’s the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, which holds the title of “best 14-inch gaming laptop” right now. It’s a high bar as one of the most portable form-factors, but with CPU and GPU thermals sitting at 93°C and 85°C respectively, it’s been clear jamming new hardware in a little chassis would be a challenge for manufacturers. Especially going as slim as 

The main current-gen contender for the Legion Slim 5 is Razer Blade 14, which our Dave was unsurprisingly obsessed with considering his track record with Razer’s portable machines. And Razer actually managed to keep things above board with the Blade’s 140W RTX 4070, which topped out at 73°C in our testing, along with the CPU’s 83°C, so things are looking good in that respect when it comes to this generation of laptops.

The Legion Slim 5 will come packing Nvidia’s portable RTX 4060 as its highest configuration. So, while it’s sure not going to smash through Baldur’s Gate 3 at 200-odd fps, a humble 105W of power behind it should see the thermals sitting even lower than the Blade’s, if we’re lucky.

As for the rest of the spec, Lenovo has opted for the same Ryzen 9 7940HS as the Blade, so we know to expect great things in terms of CPU power—95 fps averages in Hitman 3’s Dartmoor CPU benchy say enough, surely.

Lenovo is also going for a 2880 x 1800, 120Hz panel. I always appreciate a good 16:10 ratio, too, which helps when it comes to productivity. And I’m a big fan of the keyboard redesign for the 14-inch chassis. Similar to the Blade, Lenovo has gone sans-numpad, and that TrueStrike board doesn’t look as cramped in this small form-factor. 

Coming around September time, the Lenovo Legion Slim 5 will start at $1,440, and will come with three months of free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.