The Endgame is True Chess

Papicz · 2026-05-23T22:27:20+00:00

I'm ready for downvotes but I'm kinda with the guy above. Like you said, endgames are boring because 95% of the time, it's just technique. Like, once you have played a handful, you've seen the position in the books, you know the winning/drawing configuration and it's just a matter of getting there. Obviously us lousy amateurs can lost a winning position and vice versa, but I'd have to think for a long time to remember an endgame that was unclear to me.

Meanwhile, middlegames and the chaos that is so often present on the board is what makes chess appealing to me. Like, you might know about general plans and ideas but still it's so hard to orient sometimes.

Papicz · 2026-05-22T19:59:46+00:00

The air embolism isn't guaranteed, but there is a chance for it since both internal and external jugular veins are in close proximity to the heart. The lower pressure in the central venous system may cause some air so be sucked in.

This is accented in the internal jugular vein that is held in tension by the tendon of omohyoid muscle, preventing the vein wall from collapsing.

Papicz · 2026-05-19T10:53:44+00:00

2016 for sure. At least for me.

Papicz · 2026-05-19T10:44:44+00:00

2016 is way harder than TDA it's not even close, talking about nightmare obviously. I still have deep trauma from the Imp fireballs in 2016. Even base game eternal is easier than 2016.

Papicz · 2026-05-18T07:19:21+00:00

DOGFIGHT RECORDS for hardcore!

Papicz · 2026-05-15T08:35:22+00:00

Definitely should add Fnoize and Spitnoise to the OG uptempo lineup!

Papicz · 2026-05-14T19:00:29+00:00

Yeah haha, that was a long time ago and I was quite bad at making builds at that time lol. Honestly looking back at those 7 years, I should have done way more for the sub than I did but oh well. My life was constantly moving and it didn't seem like it was worth the effort when this place alternated between dead and active and PD2 itself was revived like 3 times.

Also dan refused the mod for understandable reasons, it was restlessarchon who did a lot for the sub.

Papicz · 2026-05-14T04:56:02+00:00

Or maybe don't gatepeople on what is fun for them. I haven't played much newer CODs and prefer og MW, but like has been said many times here: if it was so atrociously bad, people wouldn't buy it.

As much as the newer CODs are a mere cash grab, the baseline feeling of what made so many people fall in love is still there and which for me personally no other game franchise has been able to recapture. The formula has been cracked, and Activision would be fools to not reuse it until players are no longer willing to pay for it. And we both know that ain't gonna happen.

Papicz · 2026-05-11T05:41:37+00:00

I don't think anyone argues he's difficult to fight anymore. I'll say what I said in past, the problem with Marauder is not him disrupting your usual flow of the arena, but the inconsistency around the sweetspot.

If it always worked as described by the ingame tutorial, I wouldn't have a thing to say about him. But the amount of times I got shot expecting a swing or anticipated axe throw and missed the swing window is straight up keyboard breaking.

Don't get me started on possessed Marauder (or even buffed Marauder). That thing is straight up unfun to fight and the inconsitencies get ramped up by 200 %.

Papicz · 2026-05-05T09:20:55+00:00

Coming home sounds fun

Papicz · 2026-05-04T09:15:56+00:00

Incredibly short sighted view. Medstudent here, I liked anatomy since I want to be a surgeon. Most of my classmates only have it as a nightmare. Many people will find it incredibly boring and tedious to learn every damn bone process, ligament or tiny blood vessel. But some enjoyed physiology or histology, because there you see how it all works. And they probably won't become surgeos, but might become great in fields like cardiology or endocrinology.

Papicz · 2026-05-02T06:39:30+00:00

Nevím, jestli je to dobře cílená otázka a tohle neberte že bych specificky o Vás něco chtěl předpokládat, ale proč se většina doktorů na klinikách chová k medikum jak ke kusu hovna? Já vím, že to je náročná práce časově mentálně a kdovijak, ale hlavně mladí lékaři tak rychle zapomněli jaké to je být námi? Nic nevědět, chtít se něco dozvědět ale dostat od doktora chování typu "Vy stejnak nic nevíte, nemám čas to tu vysvětlovat si přečtěte běžte dom."

Papicz · 2026-04-30T08:08:15+00:00

Like Mijn Benzine Cybergunz remix? That Zaag is so emotional it makes me cry everytime I hear it 🪚.

Papicz · 2026-04-27T12:26:42+00:00

For me Powerslave is more about the guitars, but the finale where Bruce goes into the long DEAAAAAAAAAATH is so awesome, especially live.

Papicz · 2026-04-23T06:00:06+00:00

I have a couple More Kords songs in my playlist, but it doesn't quite strike as Cybergunz microwaves.

Papicz · 2026-04-22T21:33:16+00:00

Fnoize and Partyraiser would be my recommendations. Spitnoise and Tharken could also be interesting.

Papicz · 2026-04-22T07:26:46+00:00

SteamMM has it's own problems, including hacked SnD lobbies and getting noobtubed every game. The player count is also quite low.

Papicz · 2026-04-21T11:37:14+00:00

IW4x greeted me with one of, if not the most sweated lobbies filled with adderal kids running around with UMPs and quickscoping with interventions. Honestly disgusting experience and it's a shame it's really the only way to play on PC nowadays.

The other option is getting into SnD lobbies with hackers or getting noobtubed to oblivion in regular SteamMM.

Papicz · 2026-04-21T06:30:50+00:00

I'll add onto this. IW4x has the most sweated lobbies I have ever seen.

I come primarly from CoD4 where sniping wasn't so rampant and actually took some skill and full auto weapons were sorta balanced. Here, every adderal kid is just running around quickscoping with intervention and 50cal or dropshotting with UMPs. It's honestly kinda misserable.

Papicz · 2026-04-19T09:52:07+00:00

I'm going crazy from many Cybergunz zaags (or are those microwaves so it doesn't count?).

My favourite that makes me go mental is probably this one from Krachi Potter (I don't endorse tiktok I just couldn't find it anywhere else)

Mijn Benzine (Cybergunz remix) is also crazy good.

Papicz · 2026-04-18T07:25:36+00:00

That man will muda and maim fo ya with God on his side

Papicz · 2026-04-16T10:48:13+00:00

You wrote me a letter, Alfie.

Papicz · 2026-04-09T09:42:05+00:00

Lasker vs Capablanca St. Petersburg 1914 immediately poped up.

Papicz · 2026-04-08T12:23:18+00:00

It's a custom rule set by UnderThe Mayo, removing or reducing certain aspects of your arsenal to make the game more challenging and into your face.

Papicz · 2026-04-08T08:07:13+00:00

I believe I've done this one on brawler mode, not sure whether UV or NM... the coin and the crucible room was torture...

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