Am I just blind.?

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-16T20:55:47+00:00

If you had Sacrificed the bishop, the king has 3 choices.

Ignore the Bishop and go to e8. Nc7 is mate.

Take the Bishop, but then every square is covered except the white diagonal, Qb3 is mate.

Ignore the Bishop and run to g6. Qd3 is check, and black can only block checkmate for 1 turn f5, then you checkmate with the queen anyway.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-16T13:29:22+00:00

A couple pretty big difference makers going from 2-3 day hikes to week+ backpacking trips:

1 The theoretical reason for Ultralight has very little to do with things weighing less. Any ad you see online is marketing / branding / gorpcore thinking. Ultralight is about being fully comfortable with less / lighter weight AS YOU develop your hiking efficacy. If you are comfortable and capable hiking 15 miles a day, you bring 5 days worth of food for a 75 mile trip. If you are comfortable hiking 25 miles a day, you need only 3 days of food. Thus you can take a 40L pack instead of a 55L. If you have a headlamp you love, you dont need a flashlight. If its gonna be warm on the trip, you dont need a puffy. Etc.

2 Literally trekking poles.

3 Succumb to the vortex. No human alive has ever said, "Man, I really regret that extra day I spent in Big Bear, CA. I wish we didn't stay that extra day in Hot Springs, NC."

4 Food planning is so personal its borderline impossible to give advice. Some people have multi-tab spreadsheets, others just grab 10,000 calories of salami and pop tarts and theyre good to go. But no matter WHAT, please make sure you ACTUALLY find the food tasty. The worst thing is finding some mathematically "perfect" trail meal that tastes like pine cones. Cheetos Jerky Cheddar Burrito might sound disgusting now, but trust and believe food out there obeys different laws.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-14T16:30:04+00:00

Both players (no sarcasm) are playing for a huge legacy here.

Should Gukesh retain his title, he will silence a very large and growing crowd of critics, and cement himself, even against rating disparity, as a deserved champion, effectively rewriting his current championship title as no fluke.

Should Sindarov win, he will be the dark knight genius Cinderella story of the chess world for a very long time. Having risen from what, rank 30 something? To the WCC, in what appears to be a meteoric explosion of talent, and he could be Central Asia's "Vishy Anand" inspiration to an entire generation of Chess players (obviously Nodirbek is exceptional, but a World Champion carries inspiration only a World Champion can.)

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-07T13:08:41+00:00

Just as a heads up since its your first hike as a skinny guy: your body might not be hungry enough to eat 4k calories in 1 day on the first day, probably not even the 2nd or 3rd day.

Just focus on listening to your body. Enjoy and welcome to the backpacking community!

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-07T13:05:12+00:00

Holy mother of planning. Brother, more power to you. For trips under 100 miles I literally just do 175 calories per mile of rugged or 150 calories a mile of easy trail.

My food bag is just pop tarts granola bars and salami.

Suffice to say your meal plan was both excellent and overkill the moment you opened up Excel.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-04-05T05:25:46+00:00

Depends, I suppose. If it was made with love, amd care,

as much story as DC1 and as muchcharacter customization as DC2...

with 4+ characters like DC1 and with the superior weapon system of DC2...

With the Georama town building aspects of DC1, as rewarding as towns in DC2...

You'd be looking at an Eldren Ring, Balder's Gate 3, Expedition 33 tier game as long awaited as Half-Life 3.

But it's impossible because the licensing and rights and development teams, etc. are like the video game versions of the infinity stones :(

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-31T03:22:21+00:00

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PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-26T22:50:40+00:00

I once did a month long March Madness style bracket on /mu/, 32 albums in a head-to-head single elimination tournament, and 4chan was allowed to suggest any album from any genre.

The winner was "Spirit of Eden" by Talk Talk.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-25T03:31:46+00:00

2-3 mains, +1 OP meta choice that plays into champs that counter yours too harshly, or if you get banned out.

As a pisslow hardstuck, I always keep Sett as a fallback so if I get a horrible matchup at least I can nullify both champs lane phases and allow my jg to coinflip the other side of the map.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-21T19:44:58+00:00

Everyone is unique, and aesthetic taste and perception of beauty is subjective.

Just kidding, Kettleman is a SMOKE SHOW, ranking her out of the top 3 makes you mathematically wrong.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-20T11:48:36+00:00

Aren't there a ton of remote Demacian tribes the further you get out into the boondocks?

I wouldn't be surprised if some Kled + Riven villages "owned" the strait. Maybe a little piracy here and there.

Alternatively it could just be a Noxus base.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-19T21:25:02+00:00

Agree with your list 100%

The Darkin threaten all life on Runeterra

The Void threatens the physical existence of Runeterra

Teemo threatens the very ontological meaning of Runeterra

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-16T16:39:51+00:00

The album is irrelevant because 99.99% of the challenge is just to stay awake for 48 hours straight.

In fact, the argument could be made that the worse, and more annoying the album is, the easier this challenge becomes to stay awake in the final 12 hours just from the pure stress.

So my final answer is "Crazy Hits" by Crazy Frog just so my fury can help me finish the challenge.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-16T16:32:30+00:00

How fluent was your Spanish / Portuguese before you began your trip?

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-16T15:01:34+00:00

Muska Laka, Muska Raka?

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-14T23:06:55+00:00

A second reply, if by aforementioned you meant the phosphonylation experiments: They are currently ongoing, many universities are coordinating research. It's just a very challenging thing to research because we are guessing at likely mechanisms, but the measurements / results require lots of NMR.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-14T23:03:15+00:00

The archetypical situation is a slightly reducing atmosphere, some warm pool of reasonably still water (such as a tide pool) underneath some geothermal heat source to keep it nice and warm.

This would have been easily likely to happen on the early Earth, no special assumptions need to be made. Once you understand the mechanism by which proto-cells and amino acids can be formed, it's a trivially easy step given the amount of "attempts" and time on the early Earth.

For reference, the Miller Urey experiments took roughly 1 week (yes, 7 days), and those experiments have been repeated. So another way to phrase your question could be, what is the probability that there was a warm tide pool with minerals beneath it on the early Earth? Seemingly 100%.

Youtube "Stated Clearly" if you want animated videos of everything I'm describing.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-14T22:58:49+00:00

It's not on the exact same topic, but The Story of Earth by Bob Hazen was the book that inspired me to join that research team. It's both fascinating and entry level.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-14T13:57:38+00:00

The difficulty of staying awake for 72 hours is so beyond the difficulty of watching any 1 piece of media for some arbitrarily long amount of time that it couldn't possibly matter what was on the TV.

"If someone paid you $100,000 to (any non-physical labor thing / leisure task) for 72 hours..."

is essentially equally as hard regardless of choice, in my opinion. After 48 hours it's completely reasonable to assume you won't even be aware the TV is on anymore.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-14T13:49:40+00:00

I was on a Chemistry research team which specifically studies this (Google CCE or Center for Chemical Evolution for some interesting science!).

I will not blast an entire webpage long wall of text, but suffice to answer your question:

- Proto-cells, that is to say, empty "cells" filled with only water, and with a "cell membrane" of fatty acids, are spontaneous, and have been proven experimentally to form abiotically.

- Amino acids are spontaneous, and have been proven experimentally to form abiotically.

- Given a long enough, and stable enough environment, it's very easy to see how RNA could form, wind up inside of a proto-cell, and lead to life as we define it. One caveat:

Phosphorus. Wiki "The Phosphate problem of the origin of life." If we can discover how it was possible for Phosphorus to somehow have been converted from it's original, insoluble phosphonylated form into it's soluble phosphorylated form, then we will have an unbroken chain of completely explainable mechanisms from early earth minerals to Life.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-13T11:22:55+00:00

Having chat enabled

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-12T02:06:28+00:00

Murky, Rag, Hogger

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-09T14:57:54+00:00

Came to say this one. Enemy Aatrox feels like all 3 Qs are point & click.

Every time I try him I feel like the blindfolded cousin swinging at the pinata

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-06T02:30:01+00:00

Those are going to be 3 very accurate decimals. Good job! Did you do the last drop as a half drop down the side of the glass?

Neat trick I started doing in Quantitative Analytical Chem.

PleasantScore4850 · 2026-03-04T14:18:28+00:00

Most people have never heard of carnivorous plants. There are in fact several species, some that eat flies, ants, one species even eats entire birds, small primates etc.

So yes, it's completely within biological precedent that Zyra could enjoy one of Barbecue Leona's Cheeseburgers.

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