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Yeah, I know the general principles. I just feel like I arrive at the mid game with a lack of a clear continuity in what I should have been doing given the opening/response, even if I'm not down material. I'm basically at the "don't make 1-2 move errors and wait for the other guy to fuck up"...

Anyone have a recommendation on a good basic overview book for opening theory? I keep making early game mistakes because I remember nothing beyond like the first three moves of the Sicilian.

The 02 is as much a part of the fuel as the propellant. It's not like rockets burn atmospheric 02 even on Earth.

I get what he's trying to say. If you're part of a club and going to organized events you're already doing chess the "intended" way. He's talking about people who look down on stuff like the Hikaru/Magnus bongcloud draw because it's attention-grabbing in a 'disrespectful' way and draws fans for...

I've been getting back into chess as its popularity has risen during the pandemic. I used to play competitively in junior high but haven't really touched a board in almost 30 years. I'm loving re-learning as the GOAT and most ruthless PVP game ever. The modern chess apps are truly spectacular...

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8108730/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4

This is so fucking bad I can't even have the pirated stream on in the background.

The idea that Askren isn't an athlete is stupid. Is he in the best shape or the best boxer he could be? No, but just because a guy puts on 20 lbs or is competing outside their specialty doesn't mean he's no longer an athlete. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/athlete "a person who is...

If I were Blizzard I'd take the free publicity.

Just take it slow. The recovery is prolonged, as you expect. For the first 9 months I actually felt worse than before the surgery. I ended up going back to BJJ against the advice of ortho and PT because I figured if I was going to be miserable I might as well try being active and miserable...

At 35 I had femoroplasty and labrum repair on both hips, with a bonus cartilage microfracture on the right. Turns out I had a 10mm circular patch of exposed bone in my right socket. I'm now 7 years out and I can't say that it's totally cured my discomfort. I've had ongoing issues with psoas...

Edit: NVM, I was dumb and trying to use the crack on the launcher instead of Game.exe. Works like a charm! Instructions are not obvious to people unfamiliar with GitHub and compilers. 1) Install Battle.net application. 2) Download...

Fair play. I missed my own second use of "tunnel". Consider me pwned.

^ Pfft. I've said plenty of dumb shit here, but that's just playing arbitrary mix-and-match with my post. The words didn't even appear in that order.

Mispost. Ignore.

He hasn't expressed any dissatisfaction, but he's moving with his MD girlfriend to the bay area for her residency and doesn't seem overly broken up that SpaceX won't guarantee he can work remote from there. I think he's been there 5-6 years at this point? It's hard to imagine that with his...

Judging from my cousin's experience, this is absolutely the case. He likes the work and the perks enough that he doesn't really care at this point, but he's definitely devaluing his own time. That said, it's hard to fault him. If I were single in my mid-20's with his skills I'd put in some...

I was scarred for years as an elementary-age kid when my grandfather put one of those guillotine traps in his yard. I asked how it worked and he found the other end of the tunnel and put a hose down it to flush the mole towards the trap. When it got there, I shit you not the head shot out the...

I'd go nuts without the number pad.

I thought I saw somewhere they're changing that. It make sense to me, since there are trivial workarounds. Same justification for adding a refresh button to the gambling window.

That's a better beard than I can grow at 42. =(

Honestly, I think it would be a conceptually cleaner game without portals at all. The fact that they exist just makes you want to use them for everything. I'd be fine with manual travel everywhere, maybe with some adjustments to item weight/carry limits.

My college roommate was snow-white by 24. I have basically none at 42. There's a lot of variability. Also, beards tend to show first, so you don't see it in clean-shaven guys.

I don't think these guys understand how business works in general. Your share of profits is directly proportional to how replaceable you are. The UFC seems to have the game theory of contract negotiation down to a science. I'm sure they'd make more money off this one event paying Jones what he...

I'm all for fighters pushing for whatever pay they can get, but what is Jones' angle here? Is he expecting us (never mind he peers) to feel sorry for him that the UFC doesn't think he's worth $8M for a single fight? GTFO.

There are nine more in the manufacturing pipeline already (up to SN20). The whole point is to experience the failure modes now, and learn. It's not like this one was ever going to be put into service. Better it fail in an instructive way.

Has anyone playing PD2 started getting malware warnings? Windows Defender thinks there's Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.DC!ml going on. I understand that there's reason to think this is a false positive, but this doesn't inspire much confidence.

Never mind that Anderson really needs to hang it up and stop collecting brain damage. He's absorbed a LOT of punishment in his last few fights.

Also 1000% something said by Dana in private.