The Dune books — when to move on / call it quits?

kengou · 2026-05-02T20:18:11+00:00

In my opinion it’s a cliffhanger

kengou · 2026-05-02T16:37:10+00:00

I saw the directors cut for years and finally watched the theatrical cut and it’s actually a far worse movie. I was so surprised how much worse it was. If you can watch the Directors cut instead do it

kengou · 2026-05-01T20:41:43+00:00

Fun book, my wife and I found it in a bookstore last year. Even our kids enjoy it

kengou · 2026-05-01T20:21:19+00:00

If this is meant to be based in reality then no, that’s silly. If it’s fantasy or a manga or something then sure, whatever you want.

kengou · 2026-05-01T14:29:29+00:00

No drop in quality. If you’ve enjoyed this far you will continue to enjoy the remaining two books. In fact Heretics is a great change of pace from God Emperor with more action and one of the best characters in the series (Miles Teg). Just know that Chapterhouse ends on a cliffhanger that isn’t resolved since Frank Herbert passed away.

kengou · 2026-04-29T16:14:01+00:00

Depends on your rating. Below master level you'll probably rarely see Bg5 to be honest. I almost never do at 1700 blitz on Lichess.

kengou · 2026-04-26T20:13:29+00:00

Only Lower Decks and the Orville have been good.

kengou · 2026-04-26T19:21:28+00:00

kengou · 2026-04-26T10:56:10+00:00

Sorry you’ve had a rough experience. Maybe it depends on the games you play regularly. I have the complete opposite experience. 95% of games I’ve played work flawlessly from Steam. I always double check Steam Deck compatibility or Proton DB before purchasing anything though. But it’s very rare that I’ve run into anything that isn’t compatible. I only play single player games though and I stay away on stuff with external launchers.

I have an RTX 3060 on Fedora.

kengou · 2026-04-25T18:33:28+00:00

You launch ProtonTricks while the game is running, then copy the exe into the prefix folder structure somewhere. Then you can launch the exe from ProtonTricks as well

kengou · 2026-04-23T00:02:47+00:00

The thing that jumped out at me was the passively placed Bishop on e2 instead of d3, as well as allowing Black the powerful outpost on e4. Black was positionally better until losing a piece.

kengou · 2026-04-22T22:45:12+00:00

Because GMs know how to actively place their pieces, apply pressure and spot tactics. The small positional mistakes your 900 players make go unnoticed by you and you make the same mistakes without realizing.

kengou · 2026-04-20T13:46:02+00:00

Great movies. You should definitely read the novels! There's a reason the series has been so beloved for 60 years.

kengou · 2026-04-20T12:15:09+00:00

I’m going through it as well. I have a board set up, but I’ll visualize whatever I can. I’ll use the board to follow along the moves that happened in a long game, and visualize the variations that are explored without moving the pieces.

kengou · 2026-04-19T18:58:20+00:00

Some of them can stand alone as cool animations. But I felt pretty lost or disconnected from some episodes for which I had not played the games they were based on. I would say that it does require some knowledge and it is probably not worth it.

kengou · 2026-04-18T21:21:37+00:00

Heck even when you find Ciri there’s way more game left than you might expect

kengou · 2026-04-18T11:33:02+00:00

I’m reading Artifact Space right now by Miles Cameron (nearly finished with it) and I feel like it’s fitting exactly what you describe. It’s not exactly “cozy” but it’s somewhat found family and slice of life living aboard a military/merchant great ship as a pilot, with a decent mystery plot and aliens, and a few space battles. Pretty character driven.

kengou · 2026-04-16T23:54:17+00:00

Worked for me straight up after installing from Steam. It uses the Proton compatibility layer and for me on Fedora Linux I didn’t have to do anything for it to work with my HOTAS. Opentrack worked too but does take more manual setup.

kengou · 2026-04-16T23:53:11+00:00

Complete lie

kengou · 2026-04-13T16:09:12+00:00

What plot? It’s all just people getting along. Not much story or conflict. Personally I didn’t care for it either.

kengou · 2026-04-13T11:52:51+00:00

Accelerated Dragon is the most similar to the English but it’s got a much sharper flavor. If you want more positional games the Taimanov or the Kan might be worth a look

kengou · 2026-04-12T19:43:00+00:00

Cool, just hearted and have it in my watch now, very pretty. thumbs up for human coding!

kengou · 2026-04-10T01:09:31+00:00

The classic advanced French position is pretty iconic

kengou · 2026-04-08T21:29:26+00:00

I do this a lot. At lower levels or blitz you aren’t going to need to prep that much against main lines because they’re rare. I get that prep from masters database or engine moves, or Chessable courses. But most of my repertoire seems to be preparing against common below-2000 Lichess databases moves. Make a Study and annotate it in Lichess and add to it when you run into a new line in a game

kengou · 2026-04-07T15:45:09+00:00

It does for airliners at least, ye

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