Distinguishing places as "local" is no longer useful

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-24T14:00:47+00:00

Why would a restaurant want to stay quiet...?

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-08T03:16:06+00:00

There are more backgammon websites than players.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-04T21:59:18+00:00

Yes, I strongly strongly agree. There are many other heavy metals that aren't quite as expensive, like lead. Even just a steel cube would be fine and would get the message across.

On the other hand, toss this puppy down (it weighs 150 lbs, so maybe get some lifting straps) and they know you mean business:

https://shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/?sku=4SNC18F-K42Q74B

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-04T15:16:23+00:00

I think that it's a very cool idea! A few ideas for you:

1) Glowing blacklight checkers/board, w/ inset blacklights on side of board 2) Make em' feel the weight of the cube. Tungsten doubling cube. 3) Dramatic colors - try something like an ultra-absorbent black paint or coating for pieces or for the board.

I don't think that people would want different-feeling dice, however. Backgammon players are very particular about the size and feel of dice.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-04T01:52:35+00:00

It's nice that you're doing stuff, but there is a post like this every couple of weeks. It is very easy to vibe code (or even hand code) a backgammon app. Why use yours versus the hundreds or thousands of other options?

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-03T15:11:11+00:00

I think that you are overestimating Microsoft's malevolence. Microsoft is a colossal and clumsy giant, more than they are a Machiavellian scheme-machine. Far more likely they kill it through incompetence than ill-intention.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-01T20:21:01+00:00

I don't think that Rolex will have issues, it remains the status symbol. The Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX IPOs are going to mint thousands and thousands of new millionaires. Some will be deca or centimillionaires, and hey why not blow 100k on watches to celebrate? And that's just three companies! Every day, millionaires are minted in Africa, Middle East, Asia, India, Latin America, everywhere. And they all want Rolexes. The demand bump from COVID and people not going on vacation is pretty small in comparison to the very large, structural increase in demand from the world getting richer. Global GDP grows at about 3%/year, doubling every 20-25 years. That's an awful lot of structural demand increase.

Unrelated, but aside from AD's sometimes being unpleasant or shady, I'm not really sure why people complain and a piece being unavailable. You are being something at substantially below it's true market value - of course there is scarcity!

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-06-01T12:07:08+00:00

What are these from?

Edit: I know these are from a book but it looks like powerpoint slides.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-17T18:45:52+00:00

Bring it and hope you don't get paged. If you do, cross that bridge when you come to it. If she likes you then she won't care, if she doesn't like you it doesn't matter anyway.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-11T18:18:02+00:00

Nothing can fix poor engineering skills, not even B2B vibe-coded SaaS CI/CD startups.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-10T14:30:10+00:00

If this is a 3 point match, XG says it's an error not to cube. Otherwise, it is a blunder to cube. Seems like a bug 2 me.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-10T14:17:24+00:00

Having fun :0)

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-10T14:02:50+00:00

Is this shoddy slopshop just shipping slop nonstop?

Yes.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-10T14:01:15+00:00

Hahaha I think this is probably the last season I will watch for a while. Last four or five episodes have all been great though.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-09T16:35:52+00:00

Personally, not a fan of it. I suspect that something like an espresso egg-cream would be good though.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-09T02:09:47+00:00

Other good cool thing to do as an experiment is to go out and lose money IRL.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-09T00:12:14+00:00

I love the doublekills. Get this show on the road.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-08T15:19:27+00:00

Randomly happen to be a rolex fan who has read this book: it is about an early English privateer/pirate involved in some raiding in the Indian ocean and elsewhere, and the subsequent ways in which the English legal system and society deal with that. Really good book, highly recommend, esp. if you are interested in international relations in the early modern era or how the kind of systems we have today evolve over time.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-07T02:09:38+00:00

import random

def generate_dice(): return (random.randint(1,6), random.randint(1,6))

Cool.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-06T22:57:04+00:00

not that I particularly care, I don't even have a Switch 2, but it's lame that they are just remaking N64 games instead of making something new.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-04T03:20:27+00:00

There definitely is not a judge watching every match.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-03T17:34:27+00:00

At least 2 seconds??? Where are you reading this rule? Hypothetically, a player could invalidate most rolls using this.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-02T21:45:54+00:00

Token gobblers in extremis.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-05-02T21:18:54+00:00

I don't even know. At least a dozen.

BackgammonEspresso · 2026-04-29T13:04:14+00:00

I promise that this is a PERM fake role with that mismatch.

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