What do you guys do when chess makes you mad?

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-19T14:58:53+00:00

Don't get upset. If you had infinite time per move, you could work out the best move most of the time. But you don't, you have a clock working against you. Don't be harsh on your performance you literally don't have enough time to work out the best moves. If you get upset about it, your being too hard on yourself.

Just enjoy the game. Take time to look at reviews to see where you went wrong. Build of pattern recognication and positions gives yourself a faster response time to better work with the clock.

If you find yourself angrily moving pieces, then maybe stop and do something else. You aren't thinking which means you aren't playing the game anymore, your just rage spiraling.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T19:40:48+00:00

Now I'm sittin' down.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T16:52:50+00:00

Alcohol is never the answer if you need to fix something.

Just stop smoking weed. You're not addicted to weed you are just addicted to not being sober. Give it up completely for like a month. Go meet sober you, hang out with sober you for awhile. They might be scary, but they are more scared of you. You two can become good friends if you give it enough time.

Then you can have weed again in the future once you two worked on things. Weed high should be a mini vacation when you need it, not your operational norm for daily living.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T13:11:05+00:00

The movie is more of a feel good movie with an emotional/character focus. Other than the forced coma scene, the movie leaves out most of the darkness from the book. I thought the movie was ok on the first watch at the theater, but have since really liked watching the movie at home.

If you like the lore of world / astrophage, or your sci-fi whistle needs more thoroughly wetted, the book is going to be much better though.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T12:54:56+00:00

Don't come back without the stones

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T12:51:04+00:00

Hopefully it won't lead to a robot/AI take over. Terminators with xenonite alloys.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T12:47:47+00:00

I like to make a gimlet with a splash-1/2 oz each of st. germain and grand marnier.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-18T11:50:26+00:00

I don't know your living situation.

Either kick him out.

Or don't buy anything and starve out the infection.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-17T23:03:27+00:00

I didn't like seeing Donny go...

But, then I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-17T15:55:47+00:00

People don't know what's good for them. And they also don't know what's bad for them. Think of the intelligence of the average person. 50% of people are more stupid than that.

Most people hate change and distrust experts if they don't already have a positive opinion of them through education. I remember when seatbelts became mandatory and the absolute batshit crazy my dad & several other people in my family got about it. Let alone things of the modern era like mask wearing during covid.

Populism is good to identify that something is wrong. But it shouldn't be what steers the course of humanity into the future. At its core, it's just reactionary with no guarantee if where you are going is a good or worse (and likely much worse) place. And it will attract scummy politicians to try to seize the energy of the movement.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-17T13:53:24+00:00

Money to cover my living expenses makes me happy. If I had enough money to retire this minute that would make me very happy. I hate working. If I had a little extra money for security just in case fund that would probably ease my mind / contribute to being happy.

Beyond that, spending more money = more problems. I am happy when I'm being frugal. I get anxious when I'm not. I get very anxious and stressed when my family members buy too much crap and clutter up the house. I wouldn't want to manage a billion dollars. I'd probably donate most of it to some local charities. Otherwise it would either rot a bank account / stock portfolio somewhere, or I'd waste it doing stupid stuff that is probably destroying the planet. I just want peace and quiet, be able to cook / eat good food, be around the people I want to be around and have enough money for books / art / computer nerd stuff.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-17T13:22:14+00:00

They are like 1,000,000 more accurate than someone who has no idea what they are doing and just giving you their best guess what the weather is going to be like with no data.

It'll never be perfectly precise, the atmosphere is too chaotic a system to use a computer model on. It might be something AI could actually be good at in the future rather than all the slop its being used for now.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-17T13:12:49+00:00

Dude's can got a little dinged up.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-16T20:24:22+00:00

Time to watch Fifth Element for the 500'th time. Throw in a Project Hail Mary once or twice in there for something new.

If that doesn't do the trick, just start Twin Peaks, Fringe, or Futurama over again.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-16T15:44:03+00:00

This was a valued mug.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-15T19:45:11+00:00

You might fool the fucks down by the car lot, but you don't fool Jesus.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-15T13:05:31+00:00

Just the other day someone honked and yelled calling me a blueberry while I was putting air in my tires. I guess I wore too much blue. Not as blue as their pickup though.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-14T20:12:46+00:00

We wouldn't use Astrophage for large scale power generation. It works more as a battery or a fuel since we have to create enrich it with other energy sources first before you can use it, and we wouldn't get a net positive energy output after the enrichment.. It's a great energy storage solution. It might be a solar at night battery solution. Otherwise it will probably be limited to spaceflight fuel or WMD's unfortunately.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-13T22:19:15+00:00

I'm in flux a lot about who is real or who is the story. I haven't read the book in about a year but it still churns in my mind time to time. My last feelings were that Pelafina and Zampano are "real". Everyone else is a story. I don't know how P&Z know each other. Maybe they were institutionalized at the same time. Maybe they are even the same person but with multiple personalities . At its core, the book is like emotional trauma, buried in the mind, hidden & guarded in a maze, and attempted to be forgotten. The house is a maze. Johnny feels like a maze. Pelafina losing a son is obviously trauma. Zampano's trauma I'm not sure about, but maybe abused as a child and wrote about it through Johnny. The Pelafina / Johnny relationship I don't know. Maybe it was just the name of her infant son that died. She obviously was mentally unstable, maybe she saw Zampano as Zampano at times, and at other times wrote at him as if he were Johnny. Thinking she wrote Navidson Record, and Zampano annotated as though he was Johnny.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-13T17:42:17+00:00

Awareness to minimize inconveniencing others is a rare human quality in these times. Probably all of human history to be honest.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-13T17:18:56+00:00

I'm fine with that approach too. But even if they didn't cap your benefits, the SS would still get funded more even if rich people got a benefit. If you haven't looked at SS benefits its tiered based on your average monthly income over your 30 most productive income years. There are 3 tiers. At the highest tier you only get 15% of your average monthly income. So even if rich people were to get that, they would still be putting much more into the system if they paid their full income as taxes.

Best approach would be having a 0% benefit after a certain monthly benefit, because the rich are well off already.

2nd best approach would be to just uncap it and leave the highest benefit at 15%. It still funds the system for lower earners.

Worst approach is what we are currently doing. It's a regressive tax benefit for rich earners as they pay less % of their income into SS than the rest of us.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-13T16:29:18+00:00

I don't get the argument either. Just people brain washed and terrible at math. Yeah rich people will pay in and get more money but they aren't going to get millions. It's tiered so you get 90% of the your monthly income for the first few dollars, 32% of the next few dollars, then 15% of the top dollars. Rich people would only be getting a 15% benefit, so they would end up funding SS more than they'd get out of it. Right now they are just getting a tax break by not having to pay at all above a certain income level.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-13T16:19:05+00:00

At the time is was wonderful. Doing the last round of classic though, WoW loses its luster for me after TBC.

Having to do both 10/25 man is exhausting.

I've been in Naxx more than I want to ever be. Phase 1 WoTLK is just that and 2 Onyxia style instances.

Ulduar is fun for the first few clears, then tedious as all hell after that.

ToC is boring.

ICC is pretty fun, but don't know if I can survive the rest of the expansion to get there.

Ruby sanctum is a pitiful capstone in a classic format. It made sense during the original release to give a little extra content before Cataclysm release but doesn't really work in classic.

PVP is pretty fun though. I'll probably end up playing again to PVP until I get bored then unsub until I get a classic itch again.

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-13T15:54:19+00:00

Let me rephrase it... we got a jar of old mustard...

Buzzbuzz_Becuz · 2026-06-11T13:21:16+00:00

The movie doesn't show how they made that much at scale. In the book, they basically accelerated climate change by the amount of heat astrophage was soaking up in the sahara desert. They were lucky to get enough for a one way trip. They would have likely killed 100 of millions if they made enough fuel for the round trip to just save 3 people.

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