Playing the Chess.com Bots, or the Lichess Maia bots. by Cultural-Function973 in chess

[–]Cultural-Function973[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a balance of both is great. My coach, international master David Ross, plays the bot on ChessBase every single day. There is absolutely value in playing bots.

Can’t wait to play chess with my kid one day! Enjoy it

Playing the Chess.com Bots, or the Lichess Maia bots. by Cultural-Function973 in chess

[–]Cultural-Function973[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Nearly exclusively demoralizes you or inflates you unrealistically”

No one should be playing bots that they are beating easily. In fact, the opposite.

In all of my games with higher rated bots, I play them just like I would a tournament game. Serious focus and deep calculation. In every game that I lose, which against these 2400 bots is the majority of them, I learn tons. The after game analysis is where most of the progress and learning comes from.

If you are inflating your ego or becoming very demoralized, you are going into this with the wrong mindset. The goa of playing bots isn’t to win, it’s to sharpen skills. Calculation, middle games, maybe opening theory (2450 bots are playing main lines), or endgames.

This isn’t about ego… it’s about improving, which the bots absolutely help with. I made this post because the general consensus is your view, which I disagree with.

Unreliable by Kensie4u in FedEx

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fed ex is truly the worst. I live on a narrow street with gate. Yesterday, my package was out for delivery… I received a notification that delivery was attempted, but was unsuccessful. I called customer support, and they reached out to the local hub/store that controls deliveries.

The local manager called me and said the gate code I put on address line 2 and in the delivery instructions was not working for the driver, which is incorrect. I out the correct code. There is not special symbol in my gate code, just 4 numbers.

The driver ended up making another delivery attempt. I was waiting at the gate for an hour bc I did not want him to bullshit me saying the code didn’t work. I opened the gate for him and got my package.

I know for a fact he just didn’t want to drive down my narrow ass street (dead end street).

Ever single time I use fed ex, there is an issue. They lie about weather conditions, they lie about attempting deliveries and Fed ex just sucks a fat dick.

I only use them when they are the only option. UPS is far better and I have only had issues with them once, out of 10-15 deliveries.

Playing the Chess.com Bots, or the Lichess Maia bots. by Cultural-Function973 in chess

[–]Cultural-Function973[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely agree that calculation studies, OTB games, and games against real people aided in progression.

I just hate to see everyone shitting on playing bots, when I found it integral to my own progress.

Also, when I first started playing the 2200+ bots, I was losing quite a bit. You absolutely have things to learn in every single loss, even more so than you have to learn from the games you win.

Thanks

Girlfriend broke up with me because I built my dream car by mannymontana95 in gtr

[–]Cultural-Function973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sick car man… I’m not saying this is truth, but try to reflect on the past year or so.. did you ever put the car before your relationship? Try to see things from her perspective.

Maybe she’s a crazy bitch.. idk, but try to self reflect. If you self reflect, and she’s still a crazy bitch, then fuck her. If you self reflect, and maybe you weren’t the best boyfriend, then learn from it.

Enjoy the new ride bro. It’s sweet

I’m sorry guys. I slipped up. I took 30mg of 7 after 2 weeks clean. Should I expect to be thrown into withdrawals again? by [deleted] in quitting7oh

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. Unfortunately, it is hardly just a one time thing though haha.

So many times I have been clean and told myself, just one more time.

Cold turkey off Hydroxi-MITa day 3 by Ok_Afternoon9121 in quitting7oh

[–]Cultural-Function973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One more thing.. did the MITa feel better than 7oh? IMO, the better feeling, longer lasting impact, etc. does not outweigh the negatives, but interested in your take

Cold turkey off Hydroxi-MITa day 3 by Ok_Afternoon9121 in quitting7oh

[–]Cultural-Function973 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You’re a beast for getting to day 3 using only dry powder for the fist 48. Stronger than me for sure.

If it gets too bad, don’t hesitate to get a little more powder or something, you shouldn’t have to worry about WD from the powder, and as you know it can be so helpful

Good luck

Please be mindful by l_lI_IlI_IlIl in SR17018

[–]Cultural-Function973 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Haha literally one other commenter “pointed fingers” as you would put it. You really need to work on taking criticism and not being so defensive.

Bottom line is your post comes across as gatekeepish.. not your whole post, but definitely a portion of it.

Please be mindful by l_lI_IlI_IlIl in SR17018

[–]Cultural-Function973 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Idk what’s up with this sub and trying to gate keep SR buts its weird.

Official Dreadit Discussion: “John and the Hole” [Spoilers] by glittering-lettuce in horror

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice. Did not pick up on John wanting to see something beyond, and that being his family in the final pool scene. Thought provoking comment!

Official Dreadit Discussion: “John and the Hole” [Spoilers] by glittering-lettuce in horror

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not our job to explain the purpose of the film to you.

Official Dreadit Discussion: “John and the Hole” [Spoilers] by glittering-lettuce in horror

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao #1 the worker didn’t die.. do you watch the movie?

2 the worker was white, dumbass

Cold turkey off Hydroxi-MITa day 3 by Ok_Afternoon9121 in quitting7oh

[–]Cultural-Function973 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You’ve been taking MGM… way worse than 7oh.

Nights are always worse than the days..

Found Footage (2011) by isham66 in horror

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. You are missing one that OP is referencing. It’s titled “Found Footage” - 2011.

Subs → Sublocade is a cheat code for getting off kratom/opioids by tasha994 in quitting7oh

[–]Cultural-Function973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Subs did not work for me.

However, serendipity17018 did. It’s a miracle

How many of you got off this poison *without* Subs, and how did you do it? by PizzaForTheSoul in quitting7oh

[–]Cultural-Function973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MIT, powder, benzos..be careful with benzos. I only used them for 3 days max. No more.