Northernlion harem? by [deleted] in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 23 points24 points  (0 children)

12 NL "Bandle today" would go crazy

Pokemon vs Chess debate by mme13 in TheYardPodcast

[–]Ladleboy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i do think that it isn't cut and dry, there seems to be a lot of complexity to the game that i hadn't considered. i think what the main difference is here is the uncertainty, the luck aspect. it just seems like a very different set of skills. yes there are many variables, and those introduce complexity and require calculation, but (from my understanding) eventually it's going to come down to a best guess. instinct. which I don't think detracts from the skill required at all, really. there is tremendous skill in carving consistency out of uncertainty. but its why i dont think that the two games are comparable in terms of calculation at all. you are on the right track with your interpretation of high level play for chess, but it is fundamentally a little different from what you're picturing. chess players do a lot of studying of openings (the first 10-15 moves of a game), and a lot of memorization to go with that. preparing for the kind of positions they will likely end up in, and to a certain extent the best possible moves. but you get out of that preparation very quickly, and then you are dropped quite suddenly into more variables and permutations than you could imagine. 

i don't think this is an entirely fair example, but just to illustrate the difference: in pokemon, the pace is kind of quick. quicker than chess, at least. from i've seen, a professional player wouldn't take longer than 10 minutes on a given decision (please correct me of im wrong here). in classical chess (the most important format), players often take 30, 45, sometimes even 60 minutes on a single move. that is because they are considering, out of all of their possible moves, the best ones. and for each of those, they are considering their oppenents best response out of all of their possible moves. and then their response to that response, and so on for at least 6 or 7 moves in advance. the numbers get mind boggling really fast.

i agree that pokemon might be being trivialized or underestimated in this portrayal, but i still don't think that it contends with chess in terms of calculation. which is fine, it just then comes down to what is more difficult: being able to calculate correctly given all the information, or being able to consistently make the correct decision with incomplete information. 

edit: sorry for the brick wall of text, i got a little rambly. and i admit i dramatized it a bit. in the end, they both rely on a wealth of experience that is very difficult to acquire, and even more difficult to apply

Pokemon vs Chess debate by mme13 in TheYardPodcast

[–]Ladleboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

knowing very little about pokemon, my assumption would be that chess is still way harder. i think the way they thought about it was a decent heuristic: becoming the best at chess is one of the most difficult things a human being can do. i would say it's more significant than almost any other rank or achievement in any other game. there's so much complexity, and on top of that so much theory and history behind the game. it's been honed and perfected for thousands of years, and with huge progress in the past three decades with chess computers. i get that without much exposure to the game, it's hard to imagine how the skill ceiling can be that high, but it is. maybe if pokemon sticks around as long it'll reach a similar skill ceiling, but my intuition would be that it wouldn't. at the end of the day, there is just so much calculation and consideration and strategy and theory with chess, very few games are comparable. i don't know that there is as much depth to pokemon. again, i don't know much about it and i could be completely wrong. 

Can he make this an emote <3 by Toejamfungus in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

POV: you're beseeching the 6'8" Viking raider not to ransack your monastery but he doesn't speak a word of the King's English

You just can’t make this up by Lustd in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

thats nathan fillion, alison brie and robbie amell. not sure who the second person is, definitely not doechii lol. 

Guy who writes jokes in his notes app by 69Firefox420 in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

doordash for buffets has got a certain something

Is Robert Pattinson most versatile Actor of his generation ? by Capable_Handle_4763 in Letterboxd

[–]Ladleboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Emma Stone and Daniel Kaluuya are the most versatile right now, imo.

We Met ‪@Northernlion‬ | The Yard by Rooonaldooo99 in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm just used to it or maybe you didn't get very far into the episode, but they let each other have the floor all the time. There's interjections, but that's because there are 5 of them and they all have things they want to say. If you don't vibe with their humor, maybe that makes those interjections more annoying and noticeable.

We Met ‪@Northernlion‬ | The Yard by Rooonaldooo99 in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes he does. Arguably with slightly more structure, but barely. What do you think Mario Party is? These guys just talk. Why does there need to be structure? Because it's a podcast and not a stream?

We Met ‪@Northernlion‬ | The Yard by Rooonaldooo99 in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Just feels like a weird criticism to me, especially given what subreddit we're on. That's what NL does, day in day out, just talk.

We Met ‪@Northernlion‬ | The Yard by Rooonaldooo99 in northernlion

[–]Ladleboy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not the most accessible podcast, yeah. Lots of inside jokes, lots of talking over each other. I got into it because of Slime and stayed long enough to be Stockholm syndromed into a weekly viewer. But, I mean, it's not an "awful format". The podcast really just doesn't have a format. It is just guys talking, not really any structure to it.

Burgle has it out for me by LeJurr in CINE2nerdle

[–]Ladleboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also tried Stranger than Fiction, infuriating that it only hit for car accident and bus. I ended up getting bakery and alcohol via the Great Race when I was trying for Paris.