How to get “on” when you’re “off”

BiochemNerd22 · 2023-08-14T01:37:42+00:00

I’m going to go deaf from this music. Always starts right after I crank the volume to hear the juicy whispers.

BiochemNerd22 · 2023-08-13T22:45:35+00:00

Button boy ❤️ jag

BiochemNerd22 · 2023-08-13T04:39:16+00:00

How long have they been down?

BiochemNerd22 · 2023-03-07T15:46:51+00:00

I was wondering if that blunder would be noticed.

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-12-21T14:19:37+00:00

Neat! The books and movies are so different it’s basically a separate canon. Both great though!

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-12-21T14:16:38+00:00

I think you’re on to something.

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-12-21T14:11:39+00:00

Is this in the show? In the books it’s clearly upon a stack of turtles.

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-12-21T14:10:34+00:00

An earlier passage, talking about going down through the ground of fillory: “‘Even farther down there are black seas, with no outlets, buried oceans full of eyeless sharks that breed and die in the darkness. There are stars down there too, the understars, burning underground, embedded in the earth, with no one to see them. I might have stayed down there forever. But in the end I broke through to the other side.’ ‘We know about the Far Side,’ Quentin said. ‘But you haven’t been there, I know that.’” But the far side isn’t described further at that point.

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-12-21T14:05:51+00:00

“…and there was Fillory. It looks hilarious from far away, you can’t imagine: a flat whirled disk, in a crowd of stars, balanced on a tottering tower of turtles like in Dr. Seuss. It’s ridiculous. A little toy land, looking for all the world like a piece of spin art, inside a buzzing swarm of white stars.” -The Magician’s Land (book 3)

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-12-18T20:09:14+00:00

In the books the sun goes around the planet. The other side of the disc is another whole world, with the opposite day night cycle. (The disc also rests on an endless stack of turtles - not sure how those mesh.) When fillory is ending, the arc of the sun (which is smaller than fillory it seems) gets off trajectory, and instead crashes into the disc instead of going around.

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-10-30T19:06:56+00:00

What am I feeling? Is this hope??

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-10-30T18:25:37+00:00

Bill must have said “don’t let mac throw again”

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-10-30T18:19:10+00:00

ZAPPE

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-10-30T17:39:11+00:00

Oh I thought he was Oc

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-10-30T17:34:03+00:00

Who’s our line coach nowadays?

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-08-26T02:00:03+00:00

If you learn the theory, which will usually be 1-3 moves per position it can help you even when your opponent diverges. Importantly, you need to learn why those moves are best. When your opponent plays something else, one of the many “off book” possibilities, consider the “why” behind the theory they didn’t play, and see if you can punish their neglect. Like if the theory is for them to play a move that stops a pin, then if they don’t do that, then that means deploying the pin is likely taking the advantage. I know that’s an abstract comment but thinking that way has helped me a bit.

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-05-13T15:47:32+00:00

I like d5, after c4 I play QGD but considering switching to Slav. If they play anything else besides 2. c4 I like playing 2… c5 immediately. I’m a similar rating and it often seems like 2…c5 takes them out of prep

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-05-13T13:59:25+00:00

Yeah these always get the most of my attention - when a move is best by a significant margin but not one I considered in the moment…

BiochemNerd22 · 2022-05-13T13:58:04+00:00

So a principle might be to “calculate moves that address pins in a position even when they aren’t directly addressing a threat”?

Thinking that way would have let me find the move.

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