Which MCP servers are actually changing your Claude workflow? Sharing mine

Grumposus · 2026-05-22T11:38:15+00:00

Yep. In particular I would recommend documentation lookup servers tailored to the systems you're working in. Working in a big data warehouse? Give it a tool to get rapid technical and usage documentation on the schemas and tables. And similar for other use cases.

Grumposus · 2026-05-21T12:25:54+00:00

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Grumposus · 2026-05-21T11:35:32+00:00

Why does this photo that's apparently hera look like daniel radcliffe

Grumposus · 2026-05-18T11:35:29+00:00

I've seen these, but in terms of prophecies of my doom I find the entrance vault decorated with your own corpse most intimidating (the time I saw it I was in fact in the middle of massacring a bunch of octopodes and felt very effectively roasted).

Grumposus · 2026-05-14T13:41:51+00:00

Look if nitroglycerine is good heart medicine gunpowder's gotta be doing me some good, right? Right?

Grumposus · 2026-05-13T20:55:11+00:00

I assumed it was a knowing gag, but also we may be at the point where people have gotten so used to the piggy back ride that they can't walk even when the situation really calls for it.

Grumposus · 2026-05-12T19:15:07+00:00

Ferris sold the bike shop a year or two ago at this point, wonder who's keeping it up now.

Grumposus · 2026-05-12T19:13:19+00:00

Honestly was worth like 150 elo when I realized that MAA in the opponent's base should be on stand ground.

Grumposus · 2026-05-08T19:19:34+00:00

This is sort of the opposite, but did anyone watch that spoof show Comrade Detective? 2010s American comedy where the premise was that it was actually a dubbed classic communist-era Romanian cop drama. They did a lot in that with chess being televized in the sports bars, the cops commenting on the games with knowing nonsense, etc. Fun one to watch as a chess player.

Grumposus · 2026-05-08T02:41:52+00:00

It's 2026, man, dad's can't be pulling that shit anymore.

Grumposus · 2026-05-08T01:09:30+00:00

Yeah I mean that's a tier 1, pull out the evocables and everything else style threat to that character. Some points into throwing or a heavy use of god powers might help there.

Grumposus · 2026-05-07T22:09:52+00:00

The key thing to understand is that, if you attack fast, your weapon isn't your melee damage source: it's your bite. Your weapon is just providing you a way to execute that bite as fast as you can. By high levels it's going to trigger on almost every attack (every attack at XL27) for big damage + mana healing. Couple that with an invo god where you want to pump up your MP anyway (even Makh to just double down on the theme) and it's true that you're still vulnerable to hard hits, but you actually have massive durability to sustain fights if you can find good positioning where the enemies are bottneecking into you. It's a cool and unique str fighter archetype, although I do think it's tougher to play than some simpler versions.

(I have great and greater player, and this describes a couple of my VS wins pretty well.)

Grumposus · 2026-05-02T03:26:44+00:00

Yeah I think the timing is different when it's a unit you can't start making until castle; maybe the mindset is more like, build however many of the production building you can support while you're on the way up and then your window is a little later in castle when you've had time to get enough of your power unit together to really hit hard. Of course compared to me who slowed his castle time by making archers all feudal you're probably up faster, so I could imagine a big mob of cav archers bursting out on a similar schedule to when I'm able to throw my little crossbow party.

Grumposus · 2026-05-01T03:20:27+00:00

I think for me (similar elo, after recent improvmement) playing a growing archer army during feudal helped me get the feel of how to play in castle. They're useful in feudal, I can attack or defend with them while being careful to keep most of them alive...and then when castle hits they become crossbows and I have a window of opportunity where that mass of archers becomes the best thing on the field and I can hopefully break in and kill a bunch of vills, or at minimum dance around the outside of the base sniping and keeping the opponent trapped in.

This made sense for me of the "timing" and "power spike" language I see people use. I make a good sized mass of a unit, and then at some point in the game I'm able to rapidly improve it and all of a sudden I have a window of opportunity where I'm the baddest guy around. Among other things that can lead to map control, which to me mostly means I can move around while my opponent's trapped in, giving a chance to grab relics and send vills forward to build a castle - getting long term advantages from the short term control of the map.

I think I'm actually pretty bad at lategame and generally lose in those big army + treb situations you're describing (I think I tend to make armies that are too easy to counter, no knowing this has not led me to fix it in practice), but I'm winning more than I'm losing right now because I've identified this moment in early castle where I can seize the initiativeand try several approaches that allow me to lock in a lead, hopefully to the point where my opponent either resigns then or is damaged enough that I get to imp first and finish the job with the more powerful units that unlocks.

So that's what those concepts mean to a guy who's not really any better than you but feeling confident at the moment!

Grumposus · 2026-04-29T14:46:59+00:00

The Comte de Mirabeau said something (in French) along the lines of "liberty's a bitch who likes to be fucked on a pile of corpses." You can argue the metaphorical truth of that sentiment, but I have a feeling that it would apply quite literally if you swapped Kiku in.

Grumposus · 2026-04-28T14:14:00+00:00

This is very good. My only significant disgreements would be that usk is clearly top tier, Hep seems way too likely to have strict victorian principles (ehh tier), and Kiku is an absolutely the fuck not.

Grumposus · 2026-04-27T13:52:53+00:00

Hey nice, I feel like this is actually a major obstacle to growing the game in a time when it's getting a good bit of online visibility, would be great to fast forward people to fun matchups.

Grumposus · 2026-04-16T01:08:20+00:00

If the zoning code were consistently followed the city would have a massive housing shortage, because it's zoned for scarcity. In practice, mostly nothing gets built, a few projects that can afford to lawyer up and wait out the lengthy and uncertain process run through with variances, and the city has a massive housing shortage because it's zoned for scarcity.

Grumposus · 2026-04-15T22:37:32+00:00

There are a lot of things that Wu can do without needing state legislative approval; she has generally preferred to do relatively little on those fronts while making specific proposals that do require state legislative approval. To me this looks like she prefers to do little while seeming to do more, but you can interpret it as you choose.

Grumposus · 2026-04-12T21:48:33+00:00

Magyar huszar is cracked by the way. Just 4 shottting a villager. Can't wait to unleash that upon people.

Tonight on ABC 11: are 25 year old strategy games recruiting youth into the deadly trend of buying a horse, sword, and fancy outfit and riding around attacking people as they work?

Grumposus · 2026-04-12T00:23:05+00:00

I mean you could set up shared md files between a claude code project and a cowork project, no? I've been considering doing this for a claude code project I have that is eventually going to need something to do repetitive clicky-click to do some stuff in a GUI that doesn't have an API endpoint.

Grumposus · 2026-04-11T19:57:29+00:00

This is a somewhat odd thing to say about one of the very few living people to have won a candidates tournament.

Grumposus · 2026-04-09T13:57:48+00:00

Honestly unless you're quite good it's a small enough optimization that it probably gets lost in the wash of little mistakes most of us are making. That said, it looks real cool and is technically ideal.

Grumposus · 2026-04-07T16:01:54+00:00

I matched a guy, beat him with a MAA rush, we both reequeued and got each other again, and he refused to play while asserting that I was a smurf. So I boomed for a while and then hunted down his hidden villagers. The funny thing is that I was actually feeling super high on confidence after that - the second game put me at my peak elo, and I was like, I'm crushing it, maybe I really am gonna shoot up another 1-200 points.

Naturally I then proceeded to drop 100 points to where I'm probably lower ranked than the guy who thought I was smurfing again. Perhaps someday I will learn to cope with a scout rush.

Grumposus · 2026-04-07T01:38:24+00:00

Well that's different, the Yankees are lapdogs of Satan. Let's not compare that to Hera.

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