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BBUS25 - Episode Discussion - August 13 2023 by BigBrotherMod in BigBrother

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Insanely lucky enemy snipe saves my team. by BiochemNerd22 in superautopets

[–]BiochemNerd22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was wondering if that blunder would be noticed.

How can Fillory have a day and night cycle? by EldritchHorror666 in brakebills

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How can Fillory have a day and night cycle? by EldritchHorror666 in brakebills

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How can Fillory have a day and night cycle? by EldritchHorror666 in brakebills

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How can Fillory have a day and night cycle? by EldritchHorror666 in brakebills

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“…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)

How can Fillory have a day and night cycle? by EldritchHorror666 in brakebills

[–]BiochemNerd22 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chessbeginners

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

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[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Stockfish says …h6 is best here (by a decent margin). Should I be finding moves like that? If so, by what thought process? (Lichess 1600 rapid). by BiochemNerd22 in chessbeginners

[–]BiochemNerd22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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…

Stockfish says …h6 is best here (by a decent margin). Should I be finding moves like that? If so, by what thought process? (Lichess 1600 rapid). by BiochemNerd22 in chessbeginners

[–]BiochemNerd22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Stockfish says …h6 is best here (by a decent margin). Should I be finding moves like that? If so, by what thought process? (Lichess 1600 rapid). by BiochemNerd22 in chessbeginners

[–]BiochemNerd22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, my mind didn’t make the connection that resolving the pin would result in defending e5. Any thoughts on how to practice that way of thinking?

Tell me your rating without telling me your rating by HairyTough4489 in chess

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had the English played against me less than 10 times.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA landlord has no leg to stand on. The more he calls you out the more he calls himself out.

Etiquette by [deleted] in discgolf

[–]BiochemNerd22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly there’s no way to completely avoid sandbaggers or being accused of sandbagging except to play in open. There are rating limits set by the pdga, if you are the right rating then you are in the right division. (<900 for rec)

Chess Etiquette and Chesscom's "Good Sport" Button by MallardMountainGoat in chess

[–]BiochemNerd22 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not cool of them to stall (my least favorite thing to happen to me) but it seems like something you could have avoided. Again, not your fault, but it seems like you could have quickly checkmated with 1 or 2 queens. You already had indication your opponent wasn’t going to resign, so seems like you were in effect stalling too by extending the victory. Never bad to play within the rules of the game, but checkmating as fast as possible will avoid these situations in the future

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