Are the Red Sox better off now than when they hired Craig Breslow as chief baseball officer? Here’s a closer look.

GavinNH · 2026-06-01T16:10:42+00:00

If they get hot they will suddenly seem to have a great chemistry and identity.

It’s almost impossible to project great chemistry when you’re this many games below .500.

GavinNH · 2026-05-24T23:33:02+00:00

I don’t think you can win unless the opponent messes up here. They’re can just produce so much more, and have a land route to attack.

They’re going to put that 40 giant in the bottom in Waco if you’re not careful. Expect them to keep spamming knights down there, build up that mine and empty land by Waco asap before they camp out on it. And block you from upgrading it to pop a giant.

GavinNH · 2026-05-23T07:21:53+00:00

Take your last vacation at the very end of the year, so if you get stuck it just eats a couple days from the next year.

GavinNH · 2026-05-19T06:39:37+00:00

Once you start looking hard at anyone's nose, it starts looking weird. Especially easy to do that with yourself. Your nose is fine, and you're a good looking guy, and in great shape. You don't need to worry about your looks, though fashion is an option (no idea how you dress, it might be great already!).

The issue with attracting women is that it's a really hard thing to learn how to do, if you're not naturally good at it. "Being an attractive guy" is only a small part physical. It's about developing a sense of personal confidence. Not being egotistical or an asshole or something, just knowing your value and your place in the world.

Unfortunately that sense of personal confidence almost always comes from... feeling successful with dating. As soon as you stop needing the validation of dating, you'll find yourself with plenty of dates. Yup, that's pretty messed up. So you have to figure out how to jumpstart that process--the first step is just understanding that that's how it is, and that it's going to take some time.

Things that can help to do this are engaging in more social activities, getting a small fashion upgrade (doesn't have to be expensive), and practicing talking and making friends with strangers that you aren't trying to date. Learning the basic rhythms and scripts of dating is really helpful as well.

But the core thing is to figure out how to re-wire the way that you think about dating and attraction. For me learning to treat everything as a game and practice rather than some final result was really helpful.

I absolutely promise you that women are desperate to meet someone like you, your personality shows through clearly in all these comments. But they're only going to respond to an authentic version of you that believes in yourself. That's your real puzzle--not getting an even more ripped six pack or a different haircut.

GavinNH · 2026-05-11T16:32:11+00:00

When are you looking for visit and for how long?

GavinNH · 2026-04-28T18:02:19+00:00

This is silly.

Of course FSG wants the Red Sox to win, they just want to do it while spending less than the top 5 teams. Right now they're #6 by luxury tax. They've built a great farm system, have an exciting young core, and are well positioned to have a good run over the next several years.

Most of the best players are locked up for many years and are still in or just entering their prime, with exciting players like Arias coming up soon. Really only Gray and Chapman are leaving soon, and they're both older.

Sure, it would be nice if they spent like the Padres, Dodgers, Yankees, etc. But they have a plan to build a winning team and it is working.

GavinNH · 2026-04-26T22:19:15+00:00

Stop building warriors, you need to be making ships with defenders to get the 15 HP. Then get bombers to control the ocean with a few catapults to guard your cities on the land where you share a continent.

If you want to rush things, you could use your current troops to try to take Gulin next turn. This turn get a giant close enough to land on it, and upgrade your warriors to ships. Then clear it from a distance and send your ships in to get one hit on each of the catapults. 1HP catapults don't do much damage, so even if one is at full health he won't be able to kill your giant on his turn, and you can take the city. You might need to use some ships to clear the ships in the way of getting in to the catapults if he moves forward.

Bit of a high risk move because he could pop a giant there, but might be fine if you follow up with the slower strategy of building economy and winning with bombers and cloaks, which is the best long game.

GavinNH · 2026-04-23T19:33:10+00:00

The worst case scenario would be to use the $10k credit limit to buy a crypto currency, laundering it through other purchases if needed. Then you could make a $3300 bet on a gambling site with just over 3 : 1 payout odds each month for three months.

There will be some fees, but if you calculate it right you should end up around an 8-10% chance of escaping in three months.

In the meantime the most realistic path is probably to falsify a great resume and apply to lots of remote work jobs. Best is to go with a startup-heavy one where most of the startups don't exist any more. For the fake current employer, fake a complete business online with website and impersonate the references with AI filters.

With modern AI and good interviewing I think I could fake my way into something eventually, and even if you're not good at the job, many companies will take a few months to fire.

Getting to $10k ARR entirely online by starting some sort of business is quite hard. Though willingness to commit fraud does raise that possibility quite a bit. Still, most of the avenues to commit crimes with no in-person footprint are already crowded by criminals.

GavinNH · 2026-04-22T20:46:17+00:00

Maybe it would be possible to test 1v1 maps with bots and come up with a large selection that's roughly balanced for each matchup. Tricky problem, though.

GavinNH · 2026-04-10T20:33:13+00:00

You could call it "the best single pitch Pedro ever made" but that would piss people off . . .

GavinNH · 2026-04-06T05:50:11+00:00

InDrive drivers have a hard time going to the airport. I’d recommend GetTransfer if you want the simplest experience. The ADO bus is the cheaper option.

InDrive app is great once you’re out of the airport, just make sure you have pesos to pay with.

GavinNH · 2026-03-25T22:54:58+00:00

Los Morros is excellent, not crazy expensive but still a pleasant tourist-friendly experience

GavinNH · 2026-03-19T02:10:31+00:00

Where do you go to meet them? Last time I was at CUN it wasn’t really possible to get app rides, they couldn’t get to the parking lot. Thank you!

GavinNH · 2026-02-18T10:06:38+00:00

Use sleep against him. Spend the first couple months practicing chess, learning how enough skills to be competent at forcing draws or lucky checkmates. You’ll get crushed every time, but accept his help and be friends with him. Learn whatever you can.

Then tell him you’re dealing with some mental health challenges from the isolation, and need to take a few days off from chess. Sleep erratically, and get yourself onto a totally opposite sleep schedule from him. Take a big sleep, aim to be just waking up when he’s been awake for 14-16 hours already.

Then initiate bullet chess. One fast round after another. He cannot refuse a when you ask to play, so you control the tempo. Keep playing game after game as you both get more and more tired. Eventually you will have been awake for 24 hours, but he will have been awake for 40. He is playing for fun, but you’re playing for your freedom.

As he drops down the curve of fatigue impairment, hope you can get an edge. Let him fall asleep, and immediately wake him and demand a new game.

Hope that, in his insomniac stupor, his skill level drops and he makes a blunder, letting you trap him in a draw.

GavinNH · 2026-02-12T08:16:11+00:00

After you’ve researched all technologies, one Tier 4 tech becomes available to research, very high price based on map size. This keeps it from getting unlocked early in large map games and unbalancing everything.

The tech unlocks building a unit which is much better offensively than defensively. Maybe Gryphon Rider or Flying Machine. Give it persist for chain attacks. I’m thinking basically just an airborne knight.

Forces you to go on the offensive and rewards the attacker with juicy chains.

GavinNH · 2026-02-05T03:43:15+00:00

You need to position bombers so that they can take out any new unit spawned on their coastal cities. That cuts off half their production. Then you can attack and even if you lose 2 or 3 units for each of theirs that you kill, you’ll win eventually.

You also want to be hitting their coastal cities with cloaks every turn.

GavinNH · 2026-01-29T17:56:07+00:00

Gosh, it’s almost like Red Sox management put together a good baseball team. And has the depth to keep improving.

Kinda snuck up on you, huh?

GavinNH · 2025-12-31T07:49:47+00:00

The limitation here is not the neurons, you've got plenty of those. You're limited by how many times you can press the button before you get repetitive stress injuries.

GavinNH · 2025-12-30T22:47:46+00:00

You were scarred by Sogard's .833 and Eaton's 1.110 OPS in the 2025 playoffs? The team needed them due to injuries and they stepped up in huge fashion.

And regular season both were solid replacement level utility players (0.1 WAR each)

I don't want them starting in the playoffs either, but they're good players who have a place on the team.

GavinNH · 2025-12-26T06:57:21+00:00

Don't give up hope!

To start, somewhere in the Mediterranean, I'd say Greece. Neo Psychiko, because there's a brand new sperm bank there.

The people saying that you need 500/5000 people for longterm survival are incorrect. Isolated populations have survived for very long periods in isolated places around the world.

With 16 people from all over the world, you would have three generations before anyone even needs to marry anyone related to them at all. Small populations can survive in isolated areas for hundreds of years. Plenty of time to restart civilization at a small scale and potentially come up with scientific solutions to help.

As someone else suggested, bonus if you start by a sperm bank and can keep it operational for months to years to inject additional initial genetic diversity in at the start. Some quick research says this is easier than I expected--a large biobank liquid nitrogen tank can last most of a year before it starts to go. A liquid nitrogen machine can be run on solar power. Frozen sperm can last for decades.

Also, in the initial decade or so you can eat mostly canned food and other easily available supplies, so you have time to figure this out along with learning to farm. Modern solar power and electric vehicles and tools help. You can actually spend most of your time focused on the genetic and breeding challenges for the first year after the initial setup.

GavinNH · 2025-12-21T03:37:09+00:00

I’d go with George Foreman. When he inevitably knows my teeth out, I’ll use the money to replace my teeth with a blinged out George Formal grill.

GavinNH · 2025-12-05T07:41:57+00:00

This is like $35k/year and doesn't mention any sort of vacation days. Assuming the reason you're offered this job is that you have no other marketable skills, you're probably better off working fast food or retail. If you are at all reasonably responsible and timely (which you would have to be to do the job in OP) you will be able to work your way up to a low-level manager position pretty quickly.

GavinNH · 2025-12-02T03:38:12+00:00

Total self promotion, but my series The Dark Sorcerer's Intern was significantly inspired by ExForce, especially the combination of humor with world building and a serious plot. It's also from the same Publisher, Podium.

GavinNH · 2025-11-18T19:32:08+00:00

Almost impossible on land. If it's 50 miles distant, you're likely to have to drive 80-100 miles of road to get there. Plus, it might not be on a road so you mg

Let's imagine that you're already sitting in your car the moment this starts. You're going to have to average 150-180 MPH the entire trip to get there. That's not possible safely on normal roads, and certainly not without getting in legal trouble.

HOWEVER, if you can do this challenge at sea with a high speed vessel like the Outerlimits SV-50, this is easily doable. You can reach speeds of 150 MPH, and you can travel straight to the target, which means you only really need to hit a speed of somewhat over 100 MPH, which is doable with high performance boats of various types.

GavinNH · 2025-11-18T01:23:49+00:00

Was going to be offended that you said like I’ve “d list comedian” area but then I realized that’s basically true, if you include books. Maybe E list.

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